Figurative Language Review

Match the following

• Beggining sound of a word repeated a lot

• metaphor

• Extreme exaggeration of truth.

• alliteration

• "Wow", "splash", "crack" are examples

• simile

• Comparing two things using like or as

• onomatopeia

• Comparing two things without like or as.

• hyperbole

Match the following:

• Idiom

• To give human features to nonhuman things.

• Symbolism

• A phrase that means something different than its literal meaning.

• Personification

• A heart representing love is an example.

• Proverb

• A phrase that offers advice.

Match the following

• hyperbole

• I am so bored I could die.

• alliteration

• The Coke tasted like dirt.

• onomatopeia

• The door slammed with a bang!

• personification

• The cat yelled at me to feed her.

• simile

• Five frogs found four flies for food.

"To bite off more than you can chew" means...

• To eat like a disgusting person.

• To think too much about something.

• To try do to too much.

• To disrespect food.

"When in Rome, do as the Romans do" means....

• People should go to Rome and experience it.

• You should copy other people to have fun.

• The Romans are the most important people in history.

• When you travel, you should try to do things the locals do.

"Actions speak louder than words" means that ​ (a)   . "To be on the fence" means to be ​ (b)   . "To throw in the ​ (c)   " means to give up. Another way to tell someone that something is their responsibility is "​ (d)   ." If something can't be changed it is "​ (e)   ."

• what you do is more important than what you say
• undecided
• towel
• the ball is in your court.
• set in stone
• to chicken out
• joined at the hip
• to get the ball rolling

Match the following:

• It is connected to scamming people

• Highway robbery

• Someone who is sick

• Snake oil salesman

• It's connected to laziness

• Fish out of water

• To look uncomfortable somewhere

• To be under the weather

• Too expensive

• Couch potato

"Even a broken ​ (a)   is right twice a day" means people who are often wrong may get something right occasionally. "Don't bite the hand that feeds you" means that you shouldn't be ​ (b)   toward people who help you. "Every cloud has a ​ (c)   " is often used to give people hope. "It's a marathon, not a spring" advises people to be ​ (d)   . "When it rains, it ​ (e)   " means that bad things may happen after each other.

• clock
• ungrateful
• silver lining
• patient
• pours
• rains cats and dogs
• paranoid
• tool

"To put lipstick on a/an ​ (a)   " means to try to make something seem better than it really is. "I have a bridge to sell you" means that person is ​ (b)   . "To keep your chin up" means to show some ​ (c)   . To deal with the consequences of our actions is to "​ (d)   ." If something is "​ (e)   ", it is undecided.

• pig
• gullible
• pride
• face the music
• up in the air
• to take a deep dive
• take it easy
• mouse
• ant
• to see eye to eye

Which of these proverbs is the most similar to "Don't judge a book by its cover"?

• All that glitters isn't gold

• Laughter is the best medicine

• You are what you eat

• The sweet is never as sweet without the sour