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Figurative Language Review

  •  English    18     Public
    Similes, metaphors, alliteration and euphemisms
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  • "...but the school halls were a battleground where we found ourselves outnumbered day after wretched day."
    Metaphor
  •  15
  • "I'd like to know how Loki used [the scepter] to turn two of the sharpest men I know into his personal flying monkeys."
    Metaphor
  •  15
  • "A giant of a man was standing in the doorway. His face was almost completely hidden by a long, shaggy mane of hair and a wild, tangled beard, but you could make out his eyes, glinting like black beetles under all the hair."
    Simile
  •  15
  • "Constantly confusing, confounding the British henchmen/ Everyone give it up for America's favorite fighting Frenchman!"
    Alliteration
  •  15
  • "Then a hurricane came, and devastation reigned/ Our man saw his future drip, dripping down the drain."
    Metaphor
  •  15
  • Which lines are similes and which are metaphors? "We must be swift as a coursing river/ With all the force of a great typhoon/ with all the strength of a raging fire/ Mysterious as the dark side of the moon."
    Simile/ metaphor/ metaphor/ simile
  •  25
  • "All my life has been a series of doors in my face/ and then suddenly I bump into you/ I was thinking the same thing!/ Cause, like, I've been searching my whole life to find my own place/ and maybe it's the party talking...."
    Metaphor
  •  15
  • "My mind makes marvelous moves, masses / Marvel and move, many mock what I've mastered / Nap knowing I'm nice, naturally / Knack, never lack, make noise nationally / Operation, opposition, off, not optional / Out of sight, out of min
    Alliteration
  •  15
  • He's nervous But on the surface he looks calm and ready To drops bombs, but he keeps on forgetting What he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud..."
    Metahpor
  •  15
  • Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be / whisper words of wisdom, let it be
    Alliteration
  •  15
  • "And baby, now we've go bad blood."
    Alliteration
  •  15
  • "Do you ever feel like a plastic bag Drifting through the wind, wanting to start again? Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin Like a house of cards, one blow from caving in?”
    Simile
  •  15
  • “My heart is like an open highway Like Frankie said I did it my way I just wanna live while I’m alive It’s my life.”
    Simile
  •  15
  • What is a euphemism for getting fired?
    Student answer
  •  10
  • What is a simile?
    Comparing two things using like or as
  •  15
  • What is a metaphor?
    Comparing two things without using like or as
  •  15