Figurative Language Definition

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 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 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 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 are words or phrases that are not literal; that exaggerate or alter the usual meanings of the individual words?

• figurative language

• clauses

• illusions

• commands

What is a comparison of two unlike things saying that one IS the other?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom

What is a comparison of two unlike things using "like" "as" "resembles" or "than"?

• oxymoron

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

What is a gross exaggeration that cannot possibly be true?

• personification

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia