Figurative Language Practice

What is a simile?

• Comparing two things using like or as

• Sound effect words

• An extreme exaggeration

• Comparing two things NOT using like or as

What is alliteration?

• An extreme exaggeration

• Comparing two things using like or as

• Repeated letter sounds at the beginning of words

• A common expression that cannot be taken literally

An extreme exaggeration is called...

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

What is a metaphor?

• A common expression that cannot be taken literally

• Sound effect words

• Comparing two things NOT using like or as

• Comparing two things using like or as

What is onomatopoeia?

• An extreme exaggeration

• Sound effect words

• Comparing two things using like or as

• Repeated letter sounds at the beginning of words

Giving human qualities to something that is not a human is called...

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Idiom

A common or popular expression that cannot be taken literally is called...

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Personification

The moon smiled at me.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Personification

I am as hungry as a bear.

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

Don't let the cat out of the bag!

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia