Figurative Language Powerpoint

1. What is the definition of a simile?

Direct comparison between two objects

Comparison between two objects using like or as

Contrast between two objects

Direct contrast between two objects

2. Which of the following is an example of personification?

You're gonna hear me roar

I'm an animal, baby

Boom! Goes the dynamite

The door screamed as it swung open

3. What is the definition of a hyperbole?

When words have a lot of energy

A direct comparison between two objects

When an inanimate object has human-like characteristics

An exaggeration of sorts

4. Which of the following is NOT a hyperbole?

I could literally die right now

My backpack weighs a ton

I have so much homework

You're so hungry, you could eat a cow

5. What figure of speech is evident in the following example? Your love is my drug

Metaphor

Simile

Hyperbole

Assonance

6. Which of the following is an example of alliteration?

All the night tide I lie down by the side

Tip toe through the tulips

The lion called to me

None of these are examples of alliteration

7. What is the definition of alliteration?

Repeated vowel sounds

Repeated consonant sounds

When words sound the same

When words sound different

8. What is the definition of verbal irony?

Sarcasm

Words that weigh a ton

When it is ironic that you speak

None of these define verbal irony