I-SHAMPOO | Figurative Language

What is an idiom?

• a comparison of objects or ideas using like or as

• a phrase not meant to be taken literally

• an exaggeration that can’t possibly be true

• a reference to something well-known.

Fill in the blank: A simile is a comparison of objects or ideas using ______.

• like or as

• and

• but

• or

What is hyperbole?

• a reference to something well-known

• a comparison of unlike things that says one thing is another

• an exaggeration that can’t possibly be true

• giving human qualities to nonhuman things.

Fill in the blank: An allusion is a reference to something ______.

• well-known.

• unknown.

• imaginary.

• fictional.

What is a metaphor?

• a comparison of unlike things that says one thing is another

• words whose sounds suggest their meaning

• contradictory terms appearing in conjunction

• a phrase not meant to be taken literally.

Fill in the blank: Personification is giving human qualities to ______.

• nonhuman things

• animals

• plants

• machines

What is onomatopoeia?

• words whose sounds suggest their meaning

• a comparison of objects or ideas using like or as

• an exaggeration that can’t possibly be true

• a reference to something well-known

Fill in the blank: An oxymoron is contradictory terms appearing in ______.

• conjunction.

• opposition.

• separation.

• isolation.

The 'I' in the I-SHAMPOO acronym stands for which term in figurative language?

• Imagery

• Irony

• Idiom

• Illusion

The 'S' in the I-SHAMPOO acronym stands for which term in figurative language?

• Simile

• Symbolism

• Synecdoche

• Satire