The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience.

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A figure of speech that uses incredible exaggeration, or overstatement, for effect.

The feeling created in the reader by the poem or story.

The attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters, or the audience.

The repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together.

A reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or some other branch of culture.

A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of like or as.

A figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between two unlike things, using the words like or as.

The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning.

A figure of speech, usually one or two words in which seemingly contradictory terms appear side by side (ex: jumbo shrimp).

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A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes.

Which type of figurative language is used in the song lyrics below?

Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road.

Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go.

So make the best of this test and don’t ask why.

It’s not a question but a lesson learned in time.

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What type of figurative language is used in the song lyrics below?

“Oh, there goes Rabbit, he choked

He’s so mad, but he won’t give up that easy? No.”

Type of figurative language in the poem below?

Does it dry up

Like a raisin in the sun

Or crust and sugar over

Like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags

Like a heavy load.

Does it stink like rotten meat?

Or does it explode?

Type of figurative language in this song?

I’d rather rip out my intestines with a fork, than watch you going out with other men

I’d rather slam my fingers in a door, again and again and again …

I’d rather have my blood sucked out by leaches …

I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue …

I’d rather dive into a swimming pool filled with double-edged razor blades …

I’d rather rip my heart out of my ribcage with my bare hands and throw it on the floor and stomp on it til I die …

than spend one more minute with you.

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Type of figurative language in this famous speech?

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Type of figurative language?

Zombies are the living dead.

Type of figurative language?

"Anyway I think I met him some time before, in a different life of where I record. I mean he was Adam, I think I was Eve but my vision ends with an apple on the tree....."

Type of figurative language?

My lover’s got humor

She’s the giggle at a funeral

Knows everybody’s disapproval

I should’ve worshipped her sooner

Photo by: Kayla Johnson from Seattle, United States

Figurative language?

"I'm stuck to my mattress like crazy glue." - Tupac Shakur

Type of figurative language?

Boom, boom, boom

Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon

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