Figurative Language

Question 1

Literal Language

Answer 1

Language that is meant to be understood as it is said.

Question 2

Figurative Language

Answer 2

Language that is not meant to be understood as it is said.

Question 3

Simile

Answer 3

Compare 2 unlike things using “like, as, than”

Question 4

Metaphor

Answer 4

Comparing 2 unlike things without using “like, as, than”

Question 5

Idiom

Answer 5

Popular phrase not meant to be taken literally.

Question 6

Onomatopoeia

Answer 6

the word is spelled exactly as it sounds.

Question 7

Allusion

Answer 7

Referring to someone or something that is well known.

Question 8

Personification

Answer 8

giving human characteristics to non-human things(bring things to life)

Question 9

Alliteration

Answer 9

Using the same sound at the beginning of at least 2 words that are close together.(Planned by writer)

Question 10

Hyperboles

Answer 10

Extreme exaggerations (no possible way they are true). Humorous

Question 11

Oxymoron

Answer 11

Includes words with opposite meanings in the same sentence.

Question 12

Denotation

Answer 12

Dictionary Definition of a word.

Question 13

Connotation

Answer 13

The feeling the word gives.

Question 14

Situational Irony

Answer 14

Expect 1 thing to happen but something totally opposite happens.

Question 15

Verbal Irony

Answer 15

Say one thing but mean the opposite.

Question 16

Dramatic Irony

Answer 16

The audience knows something the characters don’t.