Figurative Language Review

Giving human characteristics to nonhuman object or animals is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

"Life is a journey" is an example of what?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

My life is a dream of wonders

• idiom

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

What is a hyperbole?

• An exaggerated statement not to be taken literally. 

• Telling the truth

• Comparing a rock to a island

• Break a leg

Metaphor

A figure of speech used to make a comparison between two things WITHOUT using "like" or "as." A metaphor makes the comparison by saying one this IS another thing.

Example: He is a rock.

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What kind of figurative language is being used?
7th grade is a breeze for some people. For others, it's a giant hurricane.

• personification

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

What is a metaphor?

• A word that makes the sound it represents

• A comparison of two unrelated things that says one thing is the other

• An exaggerated statement

A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphases or effect

Example: This book weights a ton! I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!

An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true is which type of figurative language?

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Idiom

• Personification

"He thought he was going to die from embarrassment" is an example of which type of figurative language?

• Hyperbole

• Assonance

• Idiom

• Simile