Hoot Figurative Language

“That fellow has got himself into a pickle” is an example of what?

• alliteration

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

“I nearly died laughing at his joke” is an example of what?

• idiom

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• alliteration

This when something that is not human is given human-like qualities.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom

The grey owl went hoot, hoot, hoot as the moon rose in the sky.

• alliteration

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

He's a walking encyclopedia.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• oxymoron

What literary device is used when one object represents another object?

• objective

• symbolism

• foreshadowing

• irony

What type of figurative language uses a great deal of detail and appeals to one or more of the five senses?

• idiom

• irony

• imagery

• hyperbole

Personification is defined as...

• a big exaggeration

• a comparison that doesn't use like or as

• When human-like qualities are given to someone human

• When person-like or human-like qualities are given to a non human

Choose the examples of personification:

• The house groaned loudly in the wind.

• The tree branches shivered in the cold.

• The car growled to life.

• The clouds cried for the sun to come back.

What type of figurative language is used in the sentence: 'The owl's hoot echoed like a haunting melody through the forest'?

• A) Simile

• B) Metaphor

• C) Personification

• D) Onomatopoeia