Figurative and Literal Language

What is being personified?

• The chocolate chips

• The cookie

• Anthony

• Guilt

In the sentence, "When the cat stalks his prey, he is a shadow," what two things are being compared?

• The cat and its prey

• The cat and its shadow

• The cat and a shadow

• The prey and its shadow

The dog is as big as a horse

• The dog is very big

• The dog looks like a horse

• The dog is small

• The horse barks

Her skin is as white as the snow.

• She has fair white skin.

• She has dark skin.

• She has tanned skin.

Her hands are as cold as the ice.

• They are very hot.

• They are very cold.

• They are warm.

Select the option that makes the following sentence a hyperbole. The chicken noodle soup was really hot with pepper.

• The chicken noodle soup was so hot with pepper that my mouth was on fire.

• The chicken noodle soup was so hot with pepper, my eyes watered.

• The chicken noodle soup was so hot with pepper, but tasted really good.

• The chicken noodle soup was so hot with pepper, I could not eat it.

Which statement would make this into a hyperbole?

• The butternut squash soup was so hot, it was on fire.

• The butternut squash soup was so hot, I had to wait to eat it.

• The butternut squash soup was so hot, but tasted good.

Figurative language

• True to fact

• makes comparisons between unrelated things or ideas, in order to show something about a subject.

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

metaphor means to

• transfer

• copy exactly

• lie completely

Once in a blue moon

• is a metaphor

• is an idiom

• is a simile

• is a personification