AP Language Figurative

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

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

I nearly died laughing is an example of what?

• Metaphor

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Which of the following is an example of onomatopoeia?

• She was white as a ghost

• Buzz

• Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Peppers

• Break a leg

Talking animals are an example of what type of figurative language?

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Cliche

• Pun

"You are the thunder, and I am the lightning," is an example of which type of figurative language?

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Chliche

• Personification

Which type of figurative language is used in the following Beatles song, "Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter?"

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Cliche

Define hyperbole.

• An overused phrase

• Its raining cats and dogs

• An over (excessive) exaggeration

• A comparison of two unlike things, using like or as

Which type of figurative language uses like or as to compare two unlike things?

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Cliche

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

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

He has been walking for days and days, when he has only been walking for 5 minutes is an example of:

• Idiom

• Simile

• Cliche

• Hyperbole