What is personification?

“I tell her of my father’s great herd, and how they would graze each day, walking for miles, the sun in our bones, the grass whispering its shy music.”

Rachel is a walking encyclopedia.

The sea lashed out in anger at the ships, unwilling to tolerate another battle.

The restless children were hopping about like kernels in a corn popper.

I can smell pizza from a mile away.

The book was a spaceship that transported him to strange new worlds.

The sky misses the sun at night

I've told you a million times to clean your room!

The traffic noises argued long into the night and finally Carl went to sleep.

which one is “Simile”?

Which one is “ Alliteration “?

Which of the following is an example of onomatopoeia? a) The flowers danced in the breeze. b) The clock ticked away the minutes. c) The stars twinkled in the night sky. d) The rain fell softly on the roof.

Which of the following is an example of allusion? a) He's as strong as an ox. b) She's a diamond in the rough. c) The painting was a masterpiece. d) He's a real Romeo with the ladies.

Which of the following is an example of an idiom? a) It's raining cats and dogs. b) The sun is shining brightly. c) The tree swayed in the wind. d) The car honked its horn.

What is the definition of allusion? a) The use of words to imitate sounds. b) The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. c) A figure of speech that exaggerates for emphasis or effect. d) A reference to a well-known person, place, event, or work of art.

I'd rather take baths with a man-eating shark,

Or wrestle a lion alone in the dark,

Eat spinach and liver, pet ten porcupines,

Than tackle the homework my teacher assigns.

Ravenous and savage from its long polar journey,

the North Wind is searching for food...

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time

with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Shows the speaker's attitude toward his/her subject.

Which of the following is an example of an oxymoron?

Which of the following is an example of onomatopoeia?

Which of the following is an example of imagery?

How could the following sentence be rewritten to contain alliteration?

I accidentally left my phone at home.

Read this sentence from the passage.

The clay cat was now walking across the disaster area that was her messy desk.

Which type of figurative language is used in this sentence?

Read this sentence from the passage.

"The fiddle danced under Ms. Liu's bow, as she tapped her foot to the fast beat."

Using personification to describe the violin as "dancing" shows how:

Which word is assonance with "chore"

The big little shrimp.

What is this?

Is this example synecdoche or metonymy:

"Lend me your ears, ladies and gentleman"

Is this example synecdoche or metonymy:

"All hands on deck"

Is this example synecdoche or metonymy:

"Yo check out my new wheels man"

Is this example synecdoche or metonymy:

"The pen is mightier than the sword"

“I shall throw you on a black ship and send you to the mainland, To King Echetos, destroyer of all mortal men, Who will cut off your nostrils with a sharp bronze sword; He will tear of your private parts and give them to the dogs to eat raw.” --

Homer, The Odyssey

Which word best describes the tone of the passage?

___________ is something literal in the story that stands for or evokes an abstract idea.

"Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay." - Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost

Referring to the Biblical Garden of Eden is what type of figurative language?

“It's a piece of cake.”

"In his poem "Out, Out," Robert Frost describes a boy who has cut himself with a saw holding his bleeding hand up "as if to keep/The life from spilling."

This is an example of metonymy. What is life referring to?