Figurative Language in comparison uses exaggerations or alliterations to create emphasis or paint a picture on the readers mind. Answer the following True or False questions

A personification is an exaggeration that is used for emphasis or heightened effect while a hyperbole give human like qualities to an object or idea.

True False

Smile compares two unlike without using like or as while metaphor compares two unlike like things using like or as .

True False

Alliteration is the repetition of consonants sound – example

“While I pondered weak and weary”.

True False

Imagery are words used to stimulate the five senses. True False

B.

Use the word bank to help you choose your answers.

Onomatopoeia- Words that imitate sounds (example

Alliterations- The repetition of initial consonants in a line of poetry or text. (example Peter piper picked a peck of pickled pepper.)

idiom -an expression that cannot be understood by its separate words but is understood in your culture to have a certain meaning. Last night “I pigged out” now I have a stomachache.

Oxymoron- A statement that is contradictory (for example jumbo shrimp or ugly).

Allusion- making a reference to something that is well known.(example

When she lost her job, she acted like a scrooge.) We know that Scrooge was considered mean – he did not like to spend his money.

Choose the Figurative langue or literary device

The iPhone alarm on vibrate sounded like a jackhammer.

Sun peering

Dull roar

Storm that had attacked

Blanket of snow

Crawl back into her cozy comfortable bed and curl up in the covers.

Buzzing

Died down

It was like music to her ears.