Figurative Language REVIEW

Which figurative language?

"I ate until it felt that my sides would split."

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Which figurative language?

"We stood with our arms outstretched like scarecrows and the drops hit our face."

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Which figurative language?

"But I didn’t know what was wrong about taking a trip away from God’s country now and then. Even God let his angels fly away sometimes."

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Hyperbole is defined as...

• A comparison using a verb

• Descriptive words using five senses

• A big exaggeration that can't really happen

• A figure of speech that cannot be interpreted literally

Which figurative language?

"She reminded me of a yellow number two pencil with her yellow dress, pointed nose,

and bright red shoes."

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Which figurative language?

This figurative language gives an object the ability to be like a person.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Which figurative language?

“Did you hear Ma?” she asked. “That sounded louder than the eleven o’clock

train coming down the tracks.”

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Which figurative language?

This is a comparison of 2 unlike things without using like, as, or than.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole