Figurative Language

Definition: Any expression that stretches the meaning of words beyond their literal meaning.

Imagery

Definition: A literary technique an author uses to create a mental image in the reader’s mind.

Makes use of the 5 senses (sight, smell, taste, hear, and touch).

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Warning: There are some questions that are worth DOUBLE!

Keep track of your points until the end. Whoever has the most points will be deemed the Champion of Figurative

Language!

What is a metaphor?

Answer: A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied by analogy but is not stated; does not use “like” or “as”

What is the comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”?

Answer: Simile

What is personification and what figure of

speech is it?

Answer: Where animals, ideas, things, etc are represented as having human qualities; a metaphor

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What is an allusion? Name someone who is known for this.

Answer: An implicit reference to an historical, literary, or biblical character, event, or element

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Identify the figure of speech:The dog grinned in secret.

Answer: Personification

What is irony?

Answer: A contradiction between appearance or expectation and reality; a figure of speech in which the literal meaning of the words is the opposite of their intended meaning

Identify the figure of speech:Life is like a box of chocolates.

Answer: Simile

What is an exaggerated statement that is used to

emphasize a point?

Answer: Hyperbole

What is alliteration?

Answer: The repetition of initial sounds in neighboring or stressed syllables