Figurative Language Disney

An extreme exaggeration used for effect

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

A comparison between 2 unlike things using 'like' or 'as'

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

I was so tired after school, I slept for a month! 

• hyperbole

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

What is personification?

• The same beginning sound repeated

• Giving human characteristics to non-human things

• A word that is a sound

• An exaggeration

The last day of school is like a day at the beach - easy and relaxing. 

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

What is being personified?

• The walls

• The scream

• The room

• The orange

"I caught a fish as big as a house," is an example of what literary device?

• Personification

• A simile

• A hyperbole

What is a metaphor?

• A word that makes the sound it represents

• A comparison of two unrelated things

• An exaggerated statement

The clock on the wall laughed at me as I tried to finish my test before class ended.

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

use of descriptive words/phrases to create a picture for the reader

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• imagery

• hyperbole