Spring Figurative Language

What type of figurative language is used below?

The sky misses the sun at night!

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• allusion

• metaphor

What is a metaphor?

• A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unrelated things. Does not use like or as.

• The idea that things represent other things.

• the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

• gives human characteristics to nonhuman things or inanimate objects

What is personification?

• a self contradicting word or group of words

• the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• When an author gives human characteristics to a nonhuman things or inanimate objects.

• language used by poets, novelists and other writers to create images in the mind of the reader.

"I saw you hold our home together like a foundation that would never crumble." This is an example of...

• Symbolism

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

"A quiet curtain of moss that drips with melting snow." This is an example of...

• metaphor

• imagery

• simile

• alliteration

"He sits like a stray dog, flea-covered and matted." This is an example of....

• Symbolism

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

"And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone." This quote is an example of....

• Alliteration

• Symbolism

• Imagery

• Personification

What is imagery?

• When an author gives human characteristics to a nonhuman thing

• The idea that things represent other things

• language used by poets, novelists and other writers to create images in the mind of the reader

• a self-contradicting word or group of words

What type of figurative language is used in the sentence: 'The flowers danced in the gentle breeze'?

• A) Metaphor

• B) Simile

• C) Personification

• D) Alliteration

Which of the following sentences contains a metaphor?

• A) The spring sun smiled down on us.

• B) The brook sang a cheerful tune.

• C) Her smile was as bright as the sun.

• D) The garden was a sea of colors.