Figurative Language Choice Board

What is personification?

• Words that sound like the object or actions they refer to

• Extreme exaggeration

• Giving human-like qualities to inanimate objects and animals

• Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"

What is a simile?

• Comparison without using "like" or "as"

• Figure of speech connecting to contradictory terms

• Comparison using "like" or "as"

• Extreme exaggeration

What is hyperbole?

• Repetition of the same sound

• Extreme exaggeration

• Giving human traits to animal or non-living things

• Comparing two things without "like" or "as"

What is an example of a metaphor?

• She is like a bear in the morning- grumpy and cruel.

• The flower stretched its hand out to the sun, yearning for warmth.

• Her hair was silk linen.

• Buzz, Hiss, Woof

“I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse!” is an example of which figurative language?

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

"She soothed her secret sorrow."

What figurative language device is being used in this sentence?

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

"The tropical storm slept for days". This is an example of which figurative language?

• Personification

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

"I had so much homework, I needed a pickup truck to carry all my books home!" Which type of figurative language is used here?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

An example of a simile is: "I really do like ice cream" 

• True 
• False 

Snap, crackle, and pop are examples of this.

• Personification

• Hyberbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile