Figurative Language High School

Read the text below. Is it an example of LITERAL or FIGURATIVE language?

• Literal

• Figurative

Read the text below. Is it an example of LITERAL or FIGURATIVE language?

• Literal

• Figurative

Read the text below. Is it an example of LITERAL or FIGURATIVE language?

"My baby sister has skin as soft as rose petals in full bloom."

• Literal

• Figurative

Read the text below. Is it an example of LITERAL or FIGURATIVE language?

"My sister's memory is a camera that remembers everything we see."

• Literal

• Figurative

Read the text below. Is it an example of LITERAL or FIGURATIVE language?

• Literal

• Figurative

Read the text below. Is it an example of LITERAL or FIGURATIVE language?

"The sun was shining down on us, a warm golden blanket from above."

• Literal

• Figurative

Read the text below. Is it an example of LITERAL or FIGURATIVE language?

• Literal

• Figurative

Read the text below. Is it an example of LITERAL or FIGURATIVE language?

"My mother has told me to clean my room a gazillion times today!"

• Literal

• Figurative

What type of figurative language is being used in the following sentence?

His heart raced.

• Personification

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Simile

What does the figurative language in the following sentence mean?

Dan Morgan had been grinning from ear to ear about this field trip since his first week of school.

• He had a mask hanging on his ears.

• He was happy.

• His smile was so large it almost reached his ears.