Figurative Language Definitions and Examples

The following sentences are an example of what type of figurative language?

The bee buzzed near my ear.

The thunder boomed loudly in the night.

• Imagery

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

The following sentences are an example of what type of figurative language?

Sheep should sleep in a shed.

The silky swans swam silently in the small, sparkly lake.

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Idiom

What term goes with the definition?

• Personification

• Imagery

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

What are words or phrases that are not literal; that exaggerate or alter the usual meanings of the individual words?

• figurative language

• clauses

• illusions

• commands

What is a comparison of two unlike things saying that one IS the other?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom

Harry is as slow as a sloth when he is asked to clean his room.

• simile

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• personification

I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse.

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

What is a comparison of two unlike things using "like" "as" "resembles" or "than"?

• oxymoron

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

What is a gross exaggeration that cannot possibly be true?

• personification

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

When human qualities are assigned to nonhuman things, it is ...

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• simile

• personification