Reviewing Figurative Language

Contributed by:
Ivan
Here, students will review whatever they have learned regarding figurative language from previous grades.
1. language
2. Figurative language is the use of words that
go beyond their ordinary meanings.
Figurative language requires you to use your
imagination to figure out the author's
meaning.
The water’s
reflection was like
the sun on glass.
3. SIMILE-A figure of speech
comparing two different
things using the words “like”
or “as.”
After the football game, the
boy was so sore he walked
like a toy soldier.
4. METAPHOR-A figure of speech
comparing two different things
without using the words “like” or
“as.”
Stars are buttons off the
angels’ gowns.
5. Onomatopoeia-a word or words that imitate
a sound
The click, click, click
of the computer keys
gave Mrs. Jones a
headache.
6. Personification-giving human
characteristics to things that are
not human
The moonlight
walked across the
water.
7. HYPERBOLE-figurative
language where exaggeration
is used for emphasis
Our teacher is so old she
probably taught cavemen
how to make a wheel.
8. Alliteration-figurative
language using the repetition
of consonant sounds
Cop Curt wrote Wanda the
Witch a speeding ticket.
She was flying and flipping
over the fifty-five mile an
hour limit.
9. Bang, clang, and hiss are examples of
what type of figurative language?
10.
11. What type of figurative
language is the following
sentence?
Helga hangs handkerchiefs
on the line.
12.
13. What type of figurative language is the
following sentence?
The boy could swim like a fish.
14.
15. What type of figurative language is
used in the following sentence?
John is a mountain
on the field.
16.
17. What type of figurative
language is used in the
following sentence?
Jimmy is so skinny, a
skeleton looks fatter
than he does!
18.
19. What type of figurative language is the
following sentence?
The trees danced
by the shore.
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