Figurative Language

Technique used to compare two UNLIKE things while using the words "LIKE" or "AS."

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

Technique in which the same consonant sounds is used repetitively (over and over) for effect.

• allusion

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• alliteration

The use of words that imitate the sounds they describe.

• allusion

• alliteration

• onomatoepia

• metaphor

A comparison of two unlike things.

• synonym

• metaphor

• personification

• antonym

This technique allows the writer to give human qualities to something that is NOT human.

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification

• antonym

Name the form of FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE used:

Sivan listened to the constant chatter of the third-graders as they raced across the playground.

• personification

• hyperbole

• onomatoepia

• simile

Name the form of FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE used:

Ben was a human calculator, finishing all of his equations in under five minutes!

• simile

• personification

• antonym

• metaphor

Name the form of FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE used:

Neev has a million pairs of Air Jordan sneakers in his closet!

• synonyn

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Name the form of FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE used: "The fire hissed and crackled in the stone fireplace."

• simile

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

When writing effective DIALOGUE, punctuation must be included OUTSIDE quotation marks. (TRUE or FALSE?)

• TRUE

• FALSE