Figurative Language Quizizz

a comparison of two unlike objects using the words "like" or "as." Ex/The stars in the night sky sparkled like diamonds.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• imagery

A comparison of two unlike objects (doesn't use "like" or "as").
Ex/Mrs. Connors is a grouchy bear without her morning coffee.

• metaphor

• personification

• imagery

• oxymoron

giving human qualities or traits to something that is NOT human.
Ex/ The flowers danced in the lawn.

• personification

• imagery

• oxymoron

• alliteration

vivid language that appeals to the senses; uses sensory words that appeal to the reader's sense of sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch.
Ex/ The giant tree was ablaze with the orange, red, and yellow leaves. (Sight)

• imagery

• oxymoron

• alliteration

• assonance

a phrase made of two or more words that actually have opposite meanings. These phrases are so interesting because they are two opposites joined together to create one great, descriptive expression

Ex/Deafening silence OR clearly confused

• oxymoron

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

the use of words whose sounds echo their meaning.
Ex/The leaves rustle in the wind and crunch under my feet.

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• irony

• pun

an extreme exaggeration.
Ex/ We had to run a million miles in gym class!

• hyperbole

• irony

• pun

• idiom

A contrast between expectation and reality (EX: "Nice, clean water you've got here," she said glancing at the polluted river.)

• irony

• pun

• idiom

• allusion

A humorous way of using a word or phrase so that more than one meaning is suggested (EX/The best way to communicate with fish is to drop them a line.)

• pun

• idiom

• allusion

• synecdoche

a phrase or expression whose meaning cannot be understood from the ordinary words in it
EX/ He passed the test by the skin of his teeth (meaning he barely passed the test).

• idiom

• allusion

• synecdoche

• pun