Figurative Language and Comparative Reading

Define the following term: Simile

• A figure of speech that directly compares two unrelated things using “like” or “as”

• A comparison between two different things without the use of "like" or "as"

• Any direct or indirect comparison from a work of literature

• None of the above

Define the following term: Metaphor

• A comparison between two different things NOT using "like" or "as"

• A comparison of two unrelated things using "like" or "as"

• A figure of speech in which the word imitates it's meaning

• An extreme exaggeration

Define the following term: Hyperbole

• A historic reference often seen in works of literature

• The moral of a story

• An extreme exaggeration. 

• A figure of speech in which an object (thing, idea, or animal) is given human characteristics.

Define the following term: Personification

• The development of a character's traits over the course of a story.

• Giving human characteristics to nonhuman object or animals is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Direct or indirect characterization.

• Words that sound like sounds

Define the following term: Idiom

• An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

• A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.

• Descriptive language used by poets, novelists and other writers to create images in the mind of the reader.

• Common sayings, phrases or expressions that contain a figurative meaning that is different from the phrase's literal meaning.

Define the following term: Onomatopoeia

• A  contrast between expectation and reality

• Words whose pronunciations imitate the sounds they describe.

• Language that appeals to the 5 senses (touch, taste, smell, see, hear).

• None of the above.

Define the following term: Imagery

• Visually descriptive or figurative language, specifically in a literary work, used to paint a vivid picture in the reader's mind.

• A kind of metaphor in which you describe an inanimate object, abstract thing, or non-human animal in human terms. 

• A work of literature made up entirely of pictures to help the reader draw inferences.

• Words that begin with the same sound are placed close together.

Define the following term: Pun

• An extreme exaggeration.

• Clues the writer puts in the story to give the reader a hint of what is to come.

• A form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.

• Words whose pronunciations imitate the sounds they describe.

Define the following term: Allusion

• A type of irony.

• A figure of speech, in which an object or circumstance from unrelated context is referenced without being explicitly mentioned.

• When the audience knows more information than the character they are reading about does.

• Hinting to something that is going to happen later on in the reading.

Define the following term: Alliteration

• The development of the plot within a short story.

• Words whose pronunciations imitate the sounds they describe.

• Descriptive language used to create a specific mood.

• Words that begin with the same sound are placed close together.