Figurative Language Practice

Match each figurative language term with its proper definition.

• Metaphor

• An extreme exaggeration

• Personification

• A phrase that conveys a meaning different from the literal interpretation

• Simile

• Giving non-human objects human traits

• Idiom

• A figure of speech that makes a DIRECT comparison between unlike two things (without using 'like' or 'as')

• Hyperbole

• Comparison of two unlike things that USES "Like" or "As"

Match each figurative language term with its definition.

• Pun

• A play on words; meant to be a joke.

• Oxymoron

• When two opposite words are side by side and together make a new meaning.

• Allusion

• A reference to a famous person, place, event, etc.

• Alliteration

• When two or more words begin with the same starting sound.

• Onomatopoeia

• Words that represent sounds.

Determine which type of figurative language is used in the following example:

My teacher is a dragon.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Determine which type of figurative language is used in the following example:

I'm feeling under the weather today.

• Idiom
• Hyperbole
• Personification

• Simile

Determine which type of figurative language is used in the following example:

The detention room was as welcoming as a prison cell.

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole
• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

Determine which type of figurative language is used in the following example:

Crispy, crunchy leaves crackled underfoot as we walked through the autumn forest.

• Personification
• Alliteration
• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

Determine which type of figurative language is used in the following example:

Don't be a Grinch; come join the holiday fun!

• Oxymoron

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole
• Allusion

Determine which type of figurative language is used in the following example:

"I wish Rowdy was still my friend; I could have sent him after Roger. It would have been like King Kong battling Godzilla .

from The Absolutely True Story of a Part Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

Determine which type of figurative language is used in the following example:

"The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed; it was past eight thirty and still light."

-From The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green

• Simile
• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole
• Metaphor

Determine which type of figurative language is used in the following example:

"Karma's on your scent like a bounty hunter, Karma's gonna track you down, Step by step from town to town"

-from "Karma," by Taylor Swift

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration
• Personification
• Pun