Figurative Language Lesson

A hyperbole is an:

• exaggeration

• alliteration

• assonance

• juxtaposition

It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.

• hyperbole

• assonance

• alliteration

• jusxtaposition

Which sentence uses personification?

• The woman looked as if she were 1,000 years old.

• The fire hungrily ate the house.

• Where's the wicked cat?

• The tiger purred like my cat.

Making an inanimate object or animal act like a person

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Imagery

• Personification

A comparison using "like" or "as"

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Part of the figurative language in a literary work, whereby the author uses vivid images to describe a phenomenon

• Imagery

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Idiom

An extreme exaggeration

• Flashback

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Personification

Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of several words in a phrase.

• Alliteration

• Irony

• Rhyme

• Allusion

The opposite of what is expected

• Flashback

• Idiom

• Irony

• Onomatopoeia

A comparison of two unlike things that suggests a similarity between the two items

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Imagery

• Allusion