Figurative Language
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- Q1What is figurative language?Devices authors use to teach you correct grammar.Devices authors use to make writing more interesting.Devices authors use to make writing boring and hard to read.Devices authors use to teach you different nonfiction text structures.60s
- Q2What is alliteration?An extreme exaggerationThe same beginning sound in two or more wordsCompares 2 unlike things using "like" or "as"A word that describes a sound and mimics the sound60s
- Q3What is an onomatopoeia?A phrase that says something different than what is actually means.Comparing 2 unlike things without using "like" or "as"An old, short saying that is believed to have truth to it or gives advice.A word that describes a sound and mimics the sound60s
- Q4What is a simile?An extreme exaggerationCompares 2 unlike things using "like" or "as"The same beginning sound in 2 or more words.Giving nonhuman things human characteristics.60s
- Q5What is a metaphor?Giving nonhuman things human characteristics.Compares 2 unlike things but DOES NOT use "like" or "as"A phrase that means something different than the actual words used.A word that describes a sound and mimics the sound.60s
- Q6What is an idiom?Compares 2 unlike things using "like" or "as"An old, short saying that gives adviceA phrase that means something different than what it says.An extreme exaggeration60s
- Q7What is personification?A word that describes a sound and mimics the sound.Giving nonhuman things human characteristicsA phrase that means something different than what is says.An extreme exaggeration60s
- Q8What is an adage?An old, short saying that gives adviceGiving nonhuman things human characteristics.The same beginning sounds in 2 or more words.A word that describes a sound and mimics the sound.60s
- Q9What is a hyperbole?An extreme exaggerationComparing 2 unlike things using "like" or "as".The repetition of beginning sounds in 2 or more words.Giving nonhuman things human characteristics.60s
- Q10What type of figurative language is the following sentence? The wild and woolly walrus waits and wonders when we'll walk by.AlliterationAdageIdiomMetaphor60s
- Q11What type of figurative language is the following sentence? The ocean was a raging bull.HyperboleMetaphorSimileAlliteration60s
- Q12What type of figurative language are the following words? Boom, Pow, Buzz, WhizzAlliterationHyperbolePersonificationOnomatopoeia60s
- Q13What type of figurative language is the following sentence? Her eyes shone like stars in the night sky.PersonificationIdiomAdageSimile60s
- Q14What type of figurative language is the following sentence? Cat got your tongue?AdageIdiomSimileMetaphor60s
- Q15What type of figurative language is the following sentence? The leaves danced in the wind.IdiomHyperboleAlliterationPersonification60s