Language Review

When you give human-like qualities to something that is not human

• alliteration

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• alliteration

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• idiom

an expression that is not meant to be taken literally

• idiom

• allusion

• alliteration

• metaphor

Words that resemble the sound they describe

• hyperbole

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• personification

Charming children chat in the corner

• idiom

• hyperbole

• personification

• alliteration

Juana's dark eyes swam like fish behind her tinted glasses. What is being compared in this simile?

• eyes-glasses

• eyes-fish

• fish-glasses

The fly buzzed past us

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• personification

The sunflowers nodded their yellow heads

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

We had to wait forever!

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

What is a simile?

• A comparison without using "like" or "as"

• Repetition of the same sound at the beginning of a word

• An exaggeration

• A comparison using "like" or "as"