Figurative Language
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- Q1What type of figurative language uses like or as or than to compare two unlike things?personificationliteralsimilehyperbole
- Q2What type of figurative language makes a direct comparison between two unlike things without using like or as?similealliterationhyperbolemetaphor
- Q3What type of figurative language uses extreme exaggeration to get a point across?hyperbolealliterationsimilepersonification
- Q4What type of figurative language gives people qualities to an inanimate object or an animal?objectivismliteralpersonificationhyperbole
- Q5What type of figurative language has repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables to create effect?metaphorrhythm and rhymeassonancealliteration
- Q6What type of figurative language names a thing or an action by imitating the sound associated with ithyperboleimitationassonanceonomatopoeia
- Q7What type of figurative language involves using a word or phrase that has become overly familiar, over-used or commonplace? HINT - Sometimes these can also be literal.sayingscliche`alliterationassonance
- Q8What type of figurative language involves a resemblance of sound in words or syllables?assonancesyllablismonomatopoeiaalliteration
- Q9What type of figurative language is made up of phrases that cannot be literally understood and are unique to every culture and language?phraseologyidiomsilliteralismexpressionism