Using Symbols and Figurative Language

Imagery is language that creates a picture.

• True
• False

If something is sweet, which sense am I describing?

• Sight
• Smell
• Taste
• Touch

Which is not one of the 5 senses?

• Touch
• Taste
• Smell
• Talk

How does imagery help us understand the story?

• It doesn't
• By expressing how the author is feeling
• Imagery helps us to see, touch, taste, smell, and feel what the characters feel and see
• By telling the mood

Uses like or as to compare two unlike things

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Onomatopoeia 

Language that appeals to the senses

• simile
• hyperbole
• metaphor
• imagery

This sentence appeals to which sense:

The familiar tang of his grandmother’s cranberry sauce reminded him of his youth.

• taste
• sound
• sight
• smell

Writers create imagery through figurative language.  Which is NOT a type of figurative language.

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• theme

The drumbeats sounded like distant thunder.
What type of figurative language is used?

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• idiom

After Dan climbed the steep hill, his legs were rubber.
What type of figurative language is used?

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• idiom