Figurative Language REVIEW GAME

1. "The wind was whistling through the weeping willows." 2. "I love the sound of bacon sizzling on a weekend." 3. "We tried everything that we could."

1. alliteration 2. onomatopoeia / imagery 3. hyperbole

1. using exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor; 2. it's the feeling that the reader experiences; 3. a word that is the opposite in meaning to another word.

1. hyperbole 2. mood 3. antonym

1. "I have to go to the bank, and on the way back, I'll pick up the groceries also, killing two birds with one stone." 2. "A small crowd gathered to watch the concert." 3. My kid's room is a disaster area.

1. idiom 2. oxymoron 3. metaphor

1. a common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally; for example, money talks; 2. attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character, style; 3. a figure of speech consisting of two apparently contradictory terms;

1. idiom 2. tone 3. oxymoron

1. comparing two unlike things NOT using words such as "like" or "as"; 2. descriptive language that creates a picture in your mind and appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) 3. repetition of sounds at the end of words;

1. metaphor 2. imagery 3. rhyme

1. "My teacher is a dragon." 2. "Sorry, I can't help you out right now, I am involved in my own minor crisis." 3. "We'll use plastic glasses at the picnic."

1. metaphor 2. oxymoron 3. oxymoron

1. "I will never say 'never.'" 2. "The thunder grumbled like an old man." 3. "Her hair was as soft as a spider web."

1. oxymoron 2. personification/simile/onomatopoeia 3. simile

1. "There is zero tolerance for cellphones in my classroom." 2. "Statue of Liberty stand for freedom." 3. "Go slow over the road."

1. oxymoron 2. symbol 3. assonance

1. "If you want to answer this open-ended question now, it is your only choice." 2. "Roses stand for romance." 3. "Knock, Knock, knock. Who's there?"

1. oxymoron 2. symbol 3. onomatopoeia

1. a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes; 2. words that have the same beginning sounds together; 3. a word that has the same, or nearly the same, meaning as another word;

1. personification 2. alliteration 3. synonyms

1. "The ocean danced in the moonlight." 2. "Jasmine never forgets anything." 3. "The river flows like a stream of glass."

1. personification 2. hyperbole 3. simile

1. a question asked merely for effect with no answer expected. 2. a thing that represents or stands for something else; 3. a statement that says less than what is meant

1. rhetorical question 2. symbol 3. understatement

1. comparing two unlike things using words such as "like" or "as"; 2. words that imitate a sound; simple examples include such words as buzz, hiss, hum; 3. repeating vowel sounds;

1. simile 2. onomatopoeia 3. assonance

1. "Blue represents peacefulness and calm." 2. "If I don't get an A, my mom is going to kill me." 3. "A paper plane passed over my head."

1. symbol 2. hyperbole 3. alliteration

1. central idea of a work of literature; 2. the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza; 3. a group of lines, an equavilent of a paragraph

1. theme 2. enjambment 3. stanza