ELA 9 Semester 2 Final Review

What is a metaphor?

• compares two things using 'like' or 'as'

• compares two things without using 'like' or 'as'

• an over exaggeration

What is a simile?

• compares two things using 'like' or 'as'

• compares two things without using 'like' or 'as'

• gives a nonhuman object a human quality

What is personification?

• an over exaggeration

• a play on words

• gives a nonhuman object a human quality

What is a hyperbole?

• a play on words

• when two opposite terms are combined

• an over exaggeration

What is an idiom?

• a reference to someone or something famous or historical

• a phrase with a figurative rather than literal meaning

• when two words with opposite meanings are combined

What is a pun?

• when a phrase has a figurative rather than literal meaning

• when a word represents a sound

• a play on words

What is an allusion?

• a reference to someone or something famous or historical

• when a series of words have the same beginning sound

• a word that represents a sound

What is alliteration?

• a reference to someone or something famous or historical

• a phrase with a figurative meaning rather then literal

• when a series of words have the same beginning sound

What is an oxymoron?

• when two words with opposite meanings are combined

• a play on words

• a phrase with a figurative rather than literal meaning

What is an onomatopoeia?

• A phrase with a figurative meaning rather than literal

• A word that reflects a sound

• A series of words with the same beginning sound