Identifying Figurative Language

What is a simile?

• Comparing two unlike things without using like or as.

• Comparing two things in a text.

• A type of metaphor where two things are compared using the word "like or as"

• None of the Above

What is the definition of a metaphor?

• A figure of speech that says the opposite.

• A figure of speech that says one thing is the same as something else.

• A sound effect.

• None of the Above

You have a smile that lights up the room is an example of what type of figurative language

• hyperbole

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

Which answer would be an example of a metaphor?

• The fire burned with the heat of a thousand suns.

• The fire burned like a thousand suns.

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• Peter picked peanuts...

A comparison of two dissimilar objects using like or as is a?

• Simile

• Allusion

• metaphor

• Allegory

"I flew high like a bird" is an example of a?

• Simile

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Onomotopeaia

A comparison of two dissimilar objects is called a?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Onomotopeaia

• Personification

The old house stared at the lonely swing set in the front yard," would be an example of what literary device?

• alliteration

• simile

• personification

• symbol

An object that represents something greater than itself is called a what?

• Symbol

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Aside

A story that has two meanings, a literal and figurative, is called an?  Animal Farm is a type of this.

• Allegory

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Apostrophe