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Figurative Language

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  • Q1
    What 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
  • Q2
    What is alliteration?
    An extreme exaggeration
    The same beginning sound in two or more words
    Compares 2 unlike things using "like" or "as"
    A word that describes a sound and mimics the sound
    60s
  • Q3
    What 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 sound
    60s
  • Q4
    What is a simile?
    An extreme exaggeration
    Compares 2 unlike things using "like" or "as"
    The same beginning sound in 2 or more words.
    Giving nonhuman things human characteristics.
    60s
  • Q5
    What 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
  • Q6
    What is an idiom?
    Compares 2 unlike things using "like" or "as"
    An old, short saying that gives advice
    A phrase that means something different than what it says.
    An extreme exaggeration
    60s
  • Q7
    What is personification?
    A word that describes a sound and mimics the sound.
    Giving nonhuman things human characteristics
    A phrase that means something different than what is says.
    An extreme exaggeration
    60s
  • Q8
    What is an adage?
    An old, short saying that gives advice
    Giving nonhuman things human characteristics.
    The same beginning sounds in 2 or more words.
    A word that describes a sound and mimics the sound.
    60s
  • Q9
    What is a hyperbole?
    An extreme exaggeration
    Comparing 2 unlike things using "like" or "as".
    The repetition of beginning sounds in 2 or more words.
    Giving nonhuman things human characteristics.
    60s
  • Q10
    What type of figurative language is the following sentence? The wild and woolly walrus waits and wonders when we'll walk by.
    Alliteration
    Adage
    Idiom
    Metaphor
    60s
  • Q11
    What type of figurative language is the following sentence? The ocean was a raging bull.
    Hyperbole
    Metaphor
    Simile
    Alliteration
    60s
  • Q12
    What type of figurative language are the following words? Boom, Pow, Buzz, Whizz
    Alliteration
    Hyperbole
    Personification
    Onomatopoeia
    60s
  • Q13
    What type of figurative language is the following sentence? Her eyes shone like stars in the night sky.
    Personification
    Idiom
    Adage
    Simile
    60s
  • Q14
    What type of figurative language is the following sentence? Cat got your tongue?
    Adage
    Idiom
    Simile
    Metaphor
    60s
  • Q15
    What type of figurative language is the following sentence? The leaves danced in the wind.
    Idiom
    Hyperbole
    Alliteration
    Personification
    60s

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