Simile, Metaphor, and Imagery

What is the figure of speech?

"There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot."

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Imagery

What is the figure of speech?

Her family was a circus full of colorful characters, drama, and laughter.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Imagery

I am from a place where the aroma of BBQ surrounds you while listening to the crackling of the fire and watching the flames sway.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Imagery

What is the figure of speech?

Talking to him was as frustrating as eating a hamburger with freshly painted nails.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Imagery

What is the figure of speech?

Smiling faces, rustling papers, the swish of feet swinging back and forth; the class began cheerfully with students reading and writing and humming the school fight song.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Imagery

What is the figure of speech?

The students are all stars brightening up the sky.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Imagery

What is the best definition of imagery? 

• Imagery is the author’s use of language that appeals to the five senses in order to help the reader imagine what is being described.
  
• An act of saying what will or might happen in the future.
•  A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as.
• Exaggeration

This sentence appeals to which sense:

The concert was so loud that her ears rang for days afterward.

• sound
• sight
• smell
• touch

This sentence appeals to which sense:

The sunset was the most gorgeous they’d ever seen; the clouds were edged with pink and gold.

• sight
• smell
• touch
• taste

This sentence appeals to which sense:

After eating the curry, his breath reeked of garlic.

• smell
• touch
• taste
• sound