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