Figurative Language Lesson

"Charming children chat in the corner" is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

The sunflowers nodded their yellow heads is an example of...

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

Read these lines from a poem:

"My life is like a dream / it's all up me." It's an example of...

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personfication

• Hyperbole

Read this line from a poem:

"like a tiger waking up from her deep sleep." It's an example of...

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personfication

A comparison of two unlike things that have something in common.

Uses LIKE or AS.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

A comparison of two unlike things that have something in common.

NO like or as.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

Giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Alliteration

The repetition of sounds at the beginning of words.

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

Words that imitate or sound like what they mean.

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

An over exaggeration.

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Metaphor