What Is Being Compared With Figurative Language

Choose the best definition for figurative language.

• Direct comparisons between two things that are not alike

• Language that helps add depth, meaning, clarity and enhancement

• Using words to create pictures in a reader’s mind

Giving something the qualities of being alive is ________.

A direct comparison between two things is a ____________.

A direct comparison between two things using like or as is a ______.

Choose the metaphor:

• The river laughed as it rushed by.

• The man’s laugh was like a fire.

• Your smile is a beautiful flower.

Choose the simile

• The river rushed like a freight train.

• The woman’s laugh was pure joy.

• The leaves dance in the breeze.

Choose the personification

• The world is a comedy.

• The fire ate and devoured the house.

• The leaves were like dancers.

What two things are being compared and which kind of figurative language is it? The word is a stage.

• simile - world + stage

• metaphor - world + stage

• personification - world + actor

What two things are being compared and which kind of figurative language is it? The river laughed.

• metaphor - river + person laughing

• simile - river + noise

• personification - sound of river + sound of laughter

What two things are being compared and which kind of figurative language is it? His laugh is as contagious as the flu.

• simile - laugh + how the flu spreads

• metaphor - laugh + flu

• personification - laugh + illness