Figurative Language

As straight as an arrow is an example of what?

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

The clock on the wall laughed at me as I tried to finish my test before class ended.

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

A comparison between 2 unlike things using 'like' or 'as'

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

I was so tired after school, I slept for a month! 

• hyperbole

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

Symbol or metaphor?

"I am of one element, Levity my matter, Like enough a withered leaf / For the winds to scatter."

• symbol

• metaphor

Grand Calloway Station got its name from so many people coming and going at all hours of the night, just like Grand Central Station. This is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• personification

• alliteration

A reference to a famous event/person/thing in a different work of literature

• alliteration

• allusion

• hyperbole

• imagery

What is a metaphor?

• A word that makes the sound it represents

• A comparison of two unrelated things

• An exaggerated statement

What is being personified?

• The walls

• The scream

• The room

• The orange

"Achooo" is an example of what?

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• simile