6th grade Figurative Language

Front

What is a comparison of two unlike things using the words 'like' or 'as'?

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Simile

Front

What do we call giving human qualities to nonhuman things?

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Personification

Front

What is the term for writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally?

Back

Figurative language

Front

What is a group of words whose collective meaning is very different from their literal meaning?

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Idiom

Front

What is an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally?

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Hyperbole

Front

What is a figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'?

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Metaphor

Front

What do we call words that imitate sounds?

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Onomatopoeia

Front

What is the term for a phrase that has a meaning different from the literal meaning of its individual words?

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Idiom

Front

What is a common example of a simile?

Back

As brave as a lion.

Front

What is a common example of personification?

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The wind whispered through the trees.