9.4 Figurative Languange

Question 1

mood

Answer 1

The way that you feel; She was in a very grumpy mood today.

Question 2

feeling

Answer 2

An emotion, a way that you feel; She hated her feelings of guilt.

Question 3

description

Answer 3

An account of what something or someone is like; Do you have a description of the item you are looking for?

Question 4

hyperbole

Answer 4

extravagant exaggeration

Question 5

exaggeration

Answer 5

making to seem more important than it really is

Question 6

exaggeration

Answer 6

making to seem more important than it really is

Question 7

Find the figure of speech in the following sentence and tell how is it being used: The wind tumbled the cloud across the sky like a wispy white elephant.

Answer 7

The figure of speech is “wispy white elephant”. It is used to compare a particular cloud to a wispy white elephant.

Question 8

hyperbole

Answer 8

Another important element of figurative language involves wild exaggeration.

Examples: The greatest show on Earth!

Double your pleasure, double your fun.

Mile-high stack of pancakes.

He is as strong as a rock.

Question 9

Sometimes, you’ll even see the word “___________” used as a hyperbole! Even though the word means “not figuratively,” it is more and more often being used figuratively as a sort of “intensifier,” when the speaker or writer wants to indicate something like, “I am not kidding!”

Answer 9

literally

Question 10

The actual examples of figurative language are called _______ ___ ______.

Answer 10

figures of speech

Question 11

__________ comes alive for the reader if figures of speech are used well.

Answer 11

Writing

Question 12

figurative language

Answer 12

When we try to express what something is like, we use figurative language - painting a picture with words might help you to understand this better.

Question 13

Descriptive Words–Descriptive Words—Favorite poems like “Swift Things Are Beautiful” and “Snails” show that careful observation inspires unusual __________ and descriptions.

Answer 13

comparisons

Question 14

If Boris, the Newfoundland dog in the video, was described as “giving a hundred and ten percent” of his effort to rescue people what figure of speech is that? Hyperbole or simile?

Answer 14

Hyperbole. Since “giving a hundred and ten percent” in more than all it exaggerates what is mathematically possible.