Savannah Kepley Figurative Language

What uses figures of speech to build meaning beyond the literal?

• Figurative language

• Literal Language

• Confusing Language

• Intelligent Language

What is an indirect comparison that typically uses like or as?

Example: She is as happy as a cat riding a unicorn through space.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

What is a direct comparison between two objects or concepts?

Example: Her long hair was a flowing golden river.

• Metaphor

• Imagery

• Alliteration

• Simile

What gives human traits to something that is not human?

Example: My alarm clock yells at me every morning to get out of bed!

• Personification

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Idiom

What are words that resemble the sound they represent?

Example: The baseball whizzed past my ear straight into the catcher’s mitt for strike 3.

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Allusion

What is the repetition of the beginning consonant sound within a group of words?

Example: Kathy can’t cook chocolate chip cookies continuously, can she?

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Imagery

What is the use of language that engages the 5 senses: Hearing, Sight, Taste, Smell, and Touch?

Example: The scruffy black cat’s back arches and hair stands straight up when it encounters the chocolate brown snarling dog whose teeth look like little knives covered in butter.

• Imagery

• Simile

• Personification

• Allusion

What is an extreme exaggeration?

Example: Finally, on the millionth time he asked her out a date, she said yes!

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Idiom

• Metaphor

What is an expression that means something more than the literal definition?

Example: If you don’t zip your lips, I will zip them for you!

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Imagery

What is a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance?

Example: Let’s not go there; it will unlock Pandora’s box.

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification