Reviewing Figurative Language

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Ivan
Here, students will review whatever they have learned regarding figurative language from previous grades.
1. Figures of
Speech
Make your writing
colorful
2. Figures of Speech
Figures of speech are words or phrases
that depart from straightforward
literal language. Figures of speech
are often used and crafted for
emphasis, freshness, expression,
or
3. Types of Figures of
Speech
Simile
Metaphor
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Personification
Idiom
Oxymoron
Palindrome
4. SIMILE
A simile is the comparison of
two
lik a
Unlike things using e ors .
He eats like a pig.
You are as pretty as a picture.
5. METAPHOR
A metaphor is the comparison of
two unlike things or expressions,
sometimes using the verb “to be,”
and not using like or as (as in a
“To be” (am, is, are, was, were)
6. METAPHOR
He is a pig.
“You are a tulip.”
From “A Meditation for his
Mistress”
~Robert Herrick
7. ALLITERATION
Alliteration is the
repetition
of
initial consonant sounds of
neighboring words.
Sally sells seashells by the
seashore.
8. ALLITERATION
“She left the Heaven of Heroes and came
down
To make a man to meet the mortal need,
A man to match the mountains and the sea,
The friendly welcome of the wayside well.”
From “Lincoln, the Man of the People”
~Edwin Markham
9. ONOMATOPOEIA
(on-uh-mat-uh-pee-uh)
An onomatopoeia is a word that
imitates the
sou it represents.
nd
The chiming of the bells…
The boom of the explosion…
10. ONOMATOPOEIA
“Tinkling sleigh bells
Clanging fire bells
Mellow chiming wedding bells
Tolling, moaning, and groaning
funeral bells”
From “The Bells”
~Edgar Allan Poe
11. HYPERBOLE
A hyperbole is an exaggera or
an overstate .tion
ment =
His feet are as big as boats!
I nearly died laughing!
12. HYPERBOLE
“Here once the embattled farmers
stood
the shot heard round the
And firedworld
.”
From “The Concord Hymn”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. PERSONIFICATION
Giving human qualities to
things that are not human
The moon looked down at
me.
14. IDIOM
A saying that means
something different than
what it says
It’s raining cats and dogs.
15. OXYMORON
Words that are opposites
used side by side
Jumbo shrimp
Hot chili
16. PALINDROME
Words that are the same spelled
front wards and backwards
Stanley Yelnats
Racecar
Evil Olive
17.
18. TEST YOUR
KNOWLEDGE!
He clattered and clanged
as he washed the dishes.
(A) Simile
(B) Onomatopoeia
(C) Hyperbole
19. TEST YOUR
Life is a beach!
(A)Metaphor
(C) Simile
20. TEST YOUR
KNOWLEDGE!
“Peter Piper picked a peck of
pickled peppers.”
~Mother Goose
(A) Onomatopoeia
(B) Hyperbole
(C) Alliteration
21. TEST YOUR
KNOWLEDGE!
The river falls under us like
a trap door.
(A) Onomatopoeia
(B) Simile
(C) Metaphor
22. TEST YOUR
KNOWLEDGE!
I’m so hungry I could eat a
horse!
(A) Hyperbole
(B) Metaphor
(C) Onomatopoeia
23. TEST YOUR
KNOWLEDGE!
“Don’t delay dawn’s disarming display.
Dusk demands daylight.”
From “Dewdrops Dancing Down Daises”
~Paul Mc Cann
(A) Onomatopoeia
(B) Alliteration
(C) Hyperbole
24. TEST YOUR
KNOWLEDGE!
I’ve heard that joke a billion
times, but it still cracks me
up!
(A) Simile
(B) Metaphor
(C) Hyperbole
25. TEST YOUR
KNOWLEDGE!
The glass vase is as fragile
as a child’s sandcastle.
(A) Metaphor
(B) Alliteration
(C) Simile
26. TEST YOUR
KNOWLEDGE!
The buzzing bee startled me!
(A) Hypberbole
(B) Onomatopoeia
(C) Metaphor
27. TEST YOUR
KNOWLEDGE!
She looked at him with fire
in her eyes.
(A) Alliteration
(B) Simile
(C) Metaphor
28. TEST YOUR
KNOWLEDGE
The sun draped its arms
around my shoulders
A) Personification
B) Oxymoron
C) Palindrome
29. TEST YOUR
KNOWLEDGE
You look like a million
A) Personification
B) Idiom
C) Oxymoron
30. TEST YOUR
KNOWLEDGE
You looked pretty ugly
in that dress.
A) Onomatopoeia
B) Oxymoron
C) Alliteration
31. TEST YOUR
KNOWLEDGE
The boy shouted,
“Madam, I’m Adam!”
A) Personification
B) Oxymoron
C) Palindrome