6. What does "It's raining cats and dogs" really mean?
raining a lot
The furnace purred like a great, sleepy animal.
personification
His words felt like a dagger in my heart.
imagery
5. "The microwave timer told me dinner was ready." How is this a personification?
answers vary
There is a weight on my shoulder.
metaphor
Create a sentence to describe this picture. Use any of the following types of figurative language. Then identify the kind of figurative language that you used. Alliteration, Hyperbole, Onomatopoeia, Simile, Metaphor, Idiom, Personifica
Answers may vary
get a taste of your own medicine
idiom
A metaphor is a comparison between two things. unlike a simile, a metaphor does not use the word like or as; a metaphor implies the comparison by stating that one thing is another thing.
metaphor
10. The town was covered in wonderful, white, wintery snow.
alliteration
money matters
alliteration
"giggle"
onomatopoeia
rocky road
alliteration
The car complained as the key was roughly turned in its ignition.
personification
Time is money.
metaphor
15. The thunder was a mighty lion.
A. metaphor
Descriptive language used to appeal to the five senses and to create vivid mental pictures.
imagery
give someone the cold shoulder
idiom
the bus bounced like an empty cracker box on wheels.
simile
see, smell, taste, feel, hear
imagery
good things come to those who wait
idiom
9. The lightning fast sled shot flames as it slid down the hill!
hyperbole
4. It really burned me up when you yelled at me.
idiom
"belch"
onomatopoeia
That knife is as sharp as a razor.
simile
1. The rain falls like the sun, rising upon the mountains.
simile
frogs croaks, birds whistle
onomatopoeia
idiom
An expression that, taken literally, means something other than it does figuratively.
Hyperbole
An exaggeration or overstatement used for effect. such statements are not literally true, but people make them sound impressive or to emphasize something."
I rember the summers with lightening bugs and honeysuckles smell; the cold winters when the field would all be brown and would crackle under my feet.
Imagery
"It was cold and hard, but I was so tired I could have slept in a wind tunnel."
Hyperbole
12. My alarm clock yells at me every morning. 1
personification
Figurative language that uses like or as to directly compare two unlike things.
simile
Hyperbole
An exaggeration or overstatement used for effect. such statements are not literally true, but people make them sound impressive or to emphasize something."
imagery
Descriptive language used to appeal to the five senses and to create vivid mental pictures.
"ahem"
onomatopoeia
7. The snowman was as fluffy as a marshmallow.
simile
Repeated consonant or vowel sounds at the beginning of words. Alliteration is used to create mood or emphasize certain words
Alliteration
"His Super-Slow dip- Stride Slump Shuffle"
Alliteration
Alliteration
Repeated consonant or vowel sounds at the beginning of words. Alliteration is used to create mood or emphasize certain words
She had a voice like an unoiled gate, but somehow not unpleaseant.
simile
You're as light as a feather.
hyperbole
14. Most cats purr if you pet them behind the ears.
onomatopoeia
6. When she lost her job, she became mean old Scrooge.
allusion
figurative language which gives animals and inanimate objects human characteristics and feelings
personification
personification
figurative language which gives animals and inanimate objects human characteristics and feelings
2. The fly buzzed past us.
onomatopoeia
His nostrils flared; he was breathing like a picadored bull.
simile
2. If someone is LIKE A STAR, what does that mean?
celebrity status/ admired
3. The sunflowers nodded their yellow heads.
personification
Lightning danced across the sky.
personification
The person in front of me walked as slow as a turtle.
hyperbole
Be careful, it's a jungle out there.
hyperbole
I slept like a rock last night.
hyperbole
A figurative language technique in which words resemble the real sound they refer to.
Onomatopoeia
She was as sly as a fox.
simile
the autumn leaves are a blanket on the ground
imagery
1. When we say that someone is AN ANGEL, what do we mean?
good/ bad
Cunning like a fox.
simile
metaphor
A metaphor is a comparison between two things. unlike a simile, a metaphor does not use the word like or as; a metaphor implies the comparison by stating that o
Rita heard the last piece of pie calling her name.
personification
5. He clattered and clanged as he washed the dishes.
onomatopoeia
"His smile was so wide he's have to break it into sections to fit it through the doorway."
Hyperbole
My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning.
personification
8. The fire broke out in the dead of winter .
idiom
She's as cold as ice.
simile
quick question
alliteration
4. Finish the Alliteration: Many Monsters ______________
answers will vary
13. Alicia is an angel.
metaphor
11. The boy with straight A’s was a regular Einstein.
Allusion
flags flutter and flap
onomatopoeia/ alliteration
The wind howled in the night.
personification
picture perfect
alliteration
Onomatopoeia
A figurative language technique in which words resemble the real sound they refer to.
I'm pleased to meet your better half.
metaphor
An expression that, taken literally, means something other than it does figuratively.
Idiom
7. Imagery is words that being a clear _____________ to a reader's mind.
PICTURE
simile
Figurative language that uses like or as to directly compare two unlike things.
"Fifty years ago I learned to read at a round table in the center of a large, Sweet-Smelling, Steam-Softened kitchen."
Alliteration
An exaggeration or overstatement used for effect. such statements are not literally true, but people make them sound impressive or to emphasize something."
Hyperbole
go on a wild goose chase
idiom
His heart of stone surprised me.
metaphor