Author's Use of Figurative Language

Authors use this to make their writing more imaginative and interesting. Examples include simile, metaphor, and personification.

• Text Features

• Sensory Images

• Figurative Language

• Rhyming Couplet

What is being personified? 
The moon guided me through the forest.

• moon
• forest
• me

What does this mean?
When my great uncles drives, he is as slow as a turtle. 

• very slow
• moves pretty quickly
• still beats everyone
• he's super fast

What type of figurative language is this?
The snow was a blanket covering the ground.

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• alliteration

She sells sea shells by the sea shore is an example of:

• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Simile
• Personification

What's the meaning of this simile?
"My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time."

• Her hair is red.
• She talks really loudly.
• She gets really angry. 
• She spits when she talks. 

'Pop! The cork flew from the champagne bottle.'  The word 'pop' is an example of:

• personification
• onomatopoeia
• simile
• hyperbole

'Her eyes were sparkling diamonds' is an example of:

• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole
• personification

 “I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse!” is an example of what figurative language device? 

• Hyperbole
• Personification 
• Simile 
• Metaphor 

“It's a piece of cake.”

• hyperbole

• idiom

• allusion

• simile