What Is Figurative Language

What is the definition of hyperbole?

• When a group of of words all start with the same sound.

• When words sound like what they mean.

• An extreme exaggeration

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The crazy car is colorful.

• simile

• alliteration

• personification

• repetition

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What is a simile?

• Comparing two things without using like and as

• Comparing two things in a text

• Comparing two things using like and as

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What is a metaphor?

• Comparing two things in a text

• Comparing two things using like and as

• An exaggeration 

• Comparing two things without using like and as

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The grass tickled my feet.

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

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Her heart broke in two.

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

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BOOM!!

• Hyperbole

• Allteration

• Onomatopoeia

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She is a ray of sunshine.

• Personification

• Idiom

• Metaphor

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The scared man was as white as a ghost.

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

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When I see my parents kissing it makes me want to puke!

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

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