Figurative Language Definitions

The following sentences are an example of what type of figurative language?

Sheep should sleep in a shed.

The silky swans swam silently in the small, sparkly lake.

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Idiom

The following sentences are an example of what type of figurative language?

The smell of vanilla and cinnamon filled the air as my mom took the cookies out of the oven.

I struck my hand into the water and pulled out shell. It was rough on the outside but smooth on the inside.

• Imagery

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Simile

What term goes with the definition?

• Personification

• Imagery

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

a

saying, phrase, or

expression in a

culture that has a

figurative meaning

different from its

literal meaning.

• idiom

• allusion

• onomatopoeia

• symbolism

a comparison of two things using “like” or

“as”

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

A direct comparison of two unlike things

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• allusion

• metaphor

An animal

given

human-like

qualities or an

object given

life-like

qualities

• imagery

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Words that imitate the sound they are

naming

• ailliteration

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• simile

Exaggeration often used for emphasis

• metaphor

• idiom

• imagery

• hyperbole

when a person, place,

thing, or event has

its own meaning but

also stands for

something else

• idiom

• symbolism

• personification

• alliteration