Figurative and Literal Language

The sun smiled down on us.

• is a metaphor

• is an idiom

• is a simile

• is a personification

The light danced on the surface of the water.

• is a metaphor

• is an idiom

• is a simile

• is a personification

The snow is a white blanket.

• is a metaphor

• is an idiom

• is a simile

• is a personification

The forest of trees stretched their arms to reach the sun.

• is a metaphor

• is an idiom

• is a simile

• is a personification

Literal language is

• True to fact

• True to a lie

• a meaning that is not true what you want to say

Simile is

• a kind of figurative language that does not use like or as

• a kind of figurative language that makes noises

• a kind of metaphor that uses like or as to compare two things

Personification is

• literal language

• a metaphor that gives human or physical qualities to an object, animal, or idea.

• a metaphor that uses like or as in its sentence.

What is the definition of literal language?

• Language that uses figures of speech

• Language that means exactly what it says

• Language filled with symbolism

• • Language that requires interpretation

Anaphora is a figure of speech where:

• Words are repeated at the beginning of successive clauses

• A part of something represents the whole

• The meaning of a word is softened

• Human characteristics are given to inanimate objects

Which figure of speech directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or abstraction?

• Metaphor

• Apostrophe

• Simile

• Allusion