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Figurative Language
Introduction to Figurative Language- Day 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| He has a heart of gold | |
| When you give human-like qualities to something that is not human | personification |
| The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words is called | alliteration |
| A comparison using like or as is a/an | simile |
| An expression that is not meant to be taken literally | idiom |
| Words that resemble the sound they describe | onomatopoeia |
| A comparison of two nouns that don’t use like or as | metaphor |
| The rain falls like the sun, rising upon the mountains. | simile |
| The fly buzzed past us. | onomatopoeia |
| The sunflowers nodded their yellow heads. | personification |
| Charming children chat in the corner. | alliteration |
| We had to wait forever! | hyperbole |
| My life is a dream of wonders. | metaphor |
| It really burned me up when you yelled at me. | idiom |
| He clattered and clanged as he washed the dishes. | onomatopoeia |
| a comparison between two things for the purpose of explanation or clarification. | analogy |
| when two or more close words have the same vowel sound, light and fire both have the long i sound | assonance |
| repetition of a word or words | anaphora |
| polite expression used in place of negative words- Example: someone passed away | euphemism |
| figure of speech using contradictory terms- Example: She is awfully nice. | oxymoron |
| a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning “Cleveland's baseball team”). | synecdoche |
| A play on words- Example: I was struggling to figure out how lightning works then it struck me. | pun |
| The stuffed bear smiled as the little boy hugged him close. | personification |
| The sun is like a yellow ball of fire in the sky. | simile |
| You snore louder than a freight train. | hyperbole |
| It's a slow burg. | hyperbole |
| I spent a couple of weeks there one day. | hyperbole |
| Every single day you let me down. Every single day you make me mad. Every single day you do such silly things! | anaphora |
| I had to walk 15 miles to school in the snow, uphill. | hyperbole |
| You could have knocked me over with a feather. | hyperbole |
| It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom,... | anaphora |
| A chip on your shoulder - means you are holding a grudge | idiom |
| Sick as a dog - means you are very ill | idiom |
| “The blues” can refer to both a style of music and feeling sad. | idiom |
| If something occurs rarely, it is said to happen “once in a blue moon”, because a blue moon is two full moons in one month, which doesn’t happen often. | idiom |
| “Out of the blue” means something happens that was unexpected. | idiom |
| The world is my oyster. | metaphor |
| You are a couch potato. | metaphor |
| Time is money. | metaphor |
| He has a heart of stone. | metaphor |
| America is a melting pot. | metaphor |
| You are my sunshine. | metaphor |
| Busy as a bee. | simile |
| Clean as a whistle. | simile |
| Brave as a lion. | simile |
| He stood out like a sore thumb. | simile |
| It was as easy as shooting fish in a barrel. | simile |
| My mouth was as dry as a bone. | simile |
| Opportunity knocked on the door. | personification |
| The sun greeted me this morning. | personification |
| The sky was full of dancing stars. | personification |
| The vines wove their fingers together to form a braid. | personification |
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mmacleod
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