Figurative Language Review

What is a simile?

• Comparing two unlike things without using the words like and as
• Comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as
• Comparing two things in a text
• None of the above

What is a metaphor?

• Comparison of two two unlike things without using like or as
• Naming a thing or an action by imitating the sound associated with it
• A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as
• Big exaggeration, usually with humor

What is an onomatopoeia?

• Big exaggeration, usually with humor
• Giving human qualities or traits to non living things
• Naming a thing or an action by imitating the sound associated with it
• A comparison of two things without using like or as

What is personification?

• Giving human qualities to a human
• Comparing something to a nonliving thing.
• Giving human qualities to non human things
• comparing two unlike things using like or as

What is alliteration?

• an extreme exaggeration
• the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
• a comparison of two unlike things using like or as
• giving human qualities to non human things

What is a hyperbole?

• the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
• a comparison of two unlike things using like or as
• an extreme exaggeration
• giving human qualities to non human things

What is an idiom?

• The use of symbols in writing to express something to the reader
• an extreme exaggeration
• A group of words that mean something other than the literal meaning
• Naming a thing or an action by imitating the sound associated with it

Which is an example of alliteration?

• The vase flew off the shelves.
• Powerful pandas punch parrots.
• I like to eat pie.
• The plant liked to fly.

I am dying of thirst! This is an example of:

• idiom
• hyperbole
• metaphor
• simile

Her hair is silk. This is an example of:

• personification
• simile
• metaphor
• idiom