Figurative Language Comprehension Review

What is a hyperbole?

• comparing two things using like or as

• an extreme exaggeration

• giving human traits to objects or ideas

• words or phrases that are contradictory

Match the definition with the term:
comparing two unlike things by using the words "like" or "as"

• idiom

• simile

• personification

• alliteration

Match the definition with the term:
giving human traits to objects or ideas

• idiom

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personification

Match the definition with the term:
a phrase that means something else than what it says

• idiom

• simile

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

Match the definition with the term:
an exaggeration so dramatic, nobody will believe it

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

What type of figurative language is shown?
Her long hair is an ocean of waves.

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• metaphor

What type of figurative language is shown?
She was so sad that all the tears she cried filled up a lake.

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

What type of figurative language is shown?
Her eyes were as blue as the ocean.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• alliteration

What type of figurative language is shown?
The ocean waves danced in the moonlight.

• personification

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron

A comparison between 2 unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification