Figurative Language and Sound Devices

Which term fits the following definition? An expression that has a meaning that has little to do with the words that compose it (create it).

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

Which term fits the following definition? An exaggeration that is so extreme that no one could possibly take it literally.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Alliteration

Which figurative device is being used in the following sentence? I'm so hungry I could eat a great white shark!

• Simile

• Idiom

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Your life is an open book with many blank pages yet to be filled with experiences.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Idiom

Which device is being used in the following sentence? The cat meowed at the chirping birds.

• Simile

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

What type of figurative device is the following line? His tears fell like raindrops in a storm.

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

Which device is being used in this line?

I looked outside and it was raining cats and dogs

• simile

• metaphor

• presonification

• idiom

a comparison between two unlike objects not using like or as

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

a comparison between two unlike things using like or as

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

a large exaggeration

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole