Figurative Language Review

"Your love is like bad medicine." - Bon Jovi

A group of poetic lines.

The wind whistled.

I am so hungry I could eat a horse!

Using different words or expressions to explain beyond a literal meaning. Digging deeper to find meaning.

She was a balloon in the clouds. This is an example of which term?

Authors and poets use this to help the readers create mind movies?

You are the sun in my sky.

Identify the example(s) of personification.

"I would not eat them in a house, I would not eat them with a mouse." This is an example of which poetic term?

What term means giving non-human or inanimate objects human qualities or characteristics?

This is a comparison between two things that uses like or as....

My mind was spinning like a twister.

Oink, buzz, quack, hiss, ding! are all examples of this....

Identify: Roar!

Select the metaphors!

Polly was picking pumpkins in the pumpkin patch is an example of...

Can kangaroos come from Kansas - is an example of this...

A repetition of vowel sounds is...

" A year without you is like a year without rain." - Selena Gomez

Something that is actual and factual is considered this?

Saying that two different things are the same.

Mighty Mary married Mathew in Michigan.

An exaggeration to something such as a feeling, effort, or reaction