Figurative Language: Examples and Definitions

What is the definition of 'Simile'?

• an indirect comparison between two unlike objects or ideas using like or as

• a direct comparison between two unlike objects or ideas

• giving human characteristics to non-human things

• words that sound like the words they represent

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is the definition of 'Metaphor'?

• a direct comparison between two unlike objects or ideas

• an indirect comparison between two unlike objects or ideas using like or as

• giving human characteristics to non-human things

• repeating the beginning consonant sound of a group of words

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is the definition of 'Personification'?

• giving human characteristics to non-human things

• an extreme exaggeration

• using language of the five senses to create a mental picture for the reader

• a phrase or expression that means more than the literal definition of the saying

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What is the definition of 'Onomatopoeia'?

• words that sound like the words they represent

• repeating the beginning consonant sound of a group of words

• an extreme exaggeration

• a direct comparison between to unlike objects or ideas

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is the definition of 'Imagery'?

• using language of the five senses to create a mental picture for the reader

• an extreme exaggeration

• giving human characteristics to non-human things

• words that sound like the words they represent

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is the definition of 'Hyperbole'?

• an extreme exaggeration

• a direct comparison between to unlike objects or ideas

• a phrase or expression that means more than the literal definition of the saying

• repeating the beginning consonant sound of a group of words

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is the definition of 'Alliteration'?

• repeating the beginning consonant sound of a group of words

• using language of the five senses to create a mental picture for the reader

• a phrase or expression that means more than the literal definition of the saying

• an indirect comparison between two unlike objects or ideas using like or as

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse!

• alliteration

• imagery

• hyperbole

• idiom

• None of the answers given

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

She gives money every month to help abandoned animals. She has a heart of gold.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• None of the answers given

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I gave my grandson a gift of Bruce, the blue, bouncing, bull.

• alliteration

• imagery

• hyperbole

• idiom

• None of the answers given

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4