Figurative Language Review

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Phrase with a meaning different from the words:

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Idiom

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Comparison using 'like' or 'as'...

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Simile

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Comparison without 'like' or 'as' (e.g. She is a night owl)

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Metaphor

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Giving human traits to non-human objects is...

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Personification

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An exaggerated statement is...

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Hyperbole

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Identify the figurative language: The classroom was a zoo.

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Metaphor

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Identify the figurative language: 'She is as slow as a sloth.'

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Simile

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Identify the figurative language: I can't go. I'm feeling under the weather.

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Idiom

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Identify the figurative language: 'We've been waiting here forever!'

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Hyperbole

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Identify the figurative language: The leaves danced down the street.

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Personification