Figurative Language in Movies

You sit on a thrown of lies.

--Elf

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• oxymoron

"This house is so full of people it makes me sick. When I grow up and get married, I'm living alone."

-Home Alone

• personification

• oxymoron

• simile

• rhetorical question

"Oh, Phil, when are you gonna learn that girls like that are a dime a dozen?"

- White Christmas

• oxymoron

• metaphor

• idiom

• personification

How can you say someone is great who's never had his picture on bubblegum cards?

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• rhetorical question

"I am going to save Christmas! I heard Santa on the radio, and he said he needed Olive, the other reindeer. That's me."

-Olive, the Other Reindeer

• idiom

• simile

• imagery

• pun

This is an example of which type of figurative language?

• Simile: comparing two completely different things for added effect by using "like" or "as"

• Metaphor: comparing two completely different things for added effect without using "like" or "as"

• Hyperbole: Using an extreme exaggeration

• Personification: giving human qualities to animals or objects

• Onomatopoeia: adding sound words

This is an example of which type of figurative language?

• Simile: comparing two completely different things for added effect by using "like" or "as"

• Metaphor: comparing two completely different things for added effect without using "like" or "as"

• Hyperbole: Using an extreme exaggeration

• Personification: giving human qualities to animals or objects

• Onomatopoeia: adding sound words

This is an example of which type of figurative language?

• Simile: comparing two completely different things for added effect by using "like" or "as"

• Metaphor: comparing two completely different things for added effect without using "like" or "as"

• Hyperbole: Using an extreme exaggeration

• Personification: giving human qualities to animals or objects

• Onomatopoeia: adding sound words

This is an example of which type of figurative language?

• Simile: comparing two completely different things for added effect by using "like" or "as"

• Metaphor: comparing two completely different things for added effect without using "like" or "as"

• Hyperbole: Using an extreme exaggeration

• Personification: giving human qualities to animals or objects

• Onomatopoeia: adding sound words

This is an example of which type of figurative language?

• Simile: comparing two completely different things for added effect by using "like" or "as"

• Metaphor: comparing two completely different things for added effect without using "like" or "as"

• Hyperbole: Using an extreme exaggeration

• Personification: giving human qualities to animals or objects

• Onomatopoeia: adding sound words