Figurative Language Study Guide Review

My cat weighs a ton is an example of __________________________________.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

I'm as fast as a cheetah is an example of ______________________________.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

The sun is a gold coin in the sky is an example of ________________________.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

The sun smiled down on me is an example of __________________________.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

The mountain called to me is an example of ____________________________.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Writing that makes comparisons to describe familiar things and events in new and sometime unusual ways.

• simile

• figurative language

• literal language

• personification

A comparison that uses the words like or as to compare two things that are not alike.

• simile

• hyperbole

• figurative language

• metaphor

A comparison that does NOT use the words like or as to compare two things that are not alike.

• simile

• figurative language

• metaphor

• personification

Gives human qualities to nonliving things.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

A deliberate exaggeration.

• metaphor

• literal language

• simile

• hyperbole