Figurative Language Review

What is a metaphor?

• Comparison between two unlike items without using like or as

• Comparison between two unlike items using like or as

• Comparison between two unlike items using like or as

• Gives life or human characteristics to inanimate objects

What is alliteration?

• Words that use the senses to paint a picture

• Gives life or human characteristics to inanimate objects

• Same consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• Words that stand for sounds

What is hyperbole?

• An exaggerated statement

• A comparison between two items using like or as

• Words that use the senses to paint a picture

• A comparison between two items without using like or as

What is personification?

• Same beginning consonant sounds of neighboring words

• Gives life or human characteristics to inanimate objects

• A word that mimics what it describes

• A comparison between two unlike items using like or as

What is simile?

• A comparison between two items using like or as

• Gives life or human characteristics to inanimate objects

• Words that use the senses to paint a picture

• A comparison between two items without using like or as

What is idiom?

• A comparison between two items using like or as

• A comparison between two items without using like or as

• A figurative expression that would not make sense if taken literally

• Words that stand for sounds

What is onomatopoeia?

• Intentional exaggeration

• Same beginning consonant sounds of neighboring words

• A word that stands for sounds

• A comparison between two unlike items using like or as

What is a pun?

• The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• A humorous play on words

• Words that stand for sounds

• An extreme exaggeration

The phrase "spill the beans" is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Pun

• Idiom

Which of the following is a metaphor?

• Here comes the sun

• Baby, now we've got bad blood

• You're the sunflower

• Boom! Clap! The sound of my heart