Study Guide for Figurative Language Test

STUDY GUIDE FOR FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE TEST palindrome - A number, word, or phrase which can be read the same both from the front and from the back. Race car, Hannah, Dad personification - Giving human qualities to inanimate objects, ideas, or animals The wind howled last night. The tree waved at us. metaphor - A comparison of two things without using like or as. Her hair is silk. (comparing hair and silk, it means the hair is soft.) joke - A funny, made-up story with a punch line told by a person. Knock knock. Who’s there? Boo. Boo hoo? Don’t cry it just a joke. simile - A comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as She is as mad as a hornet. (comparing someone being mad to a hornet – which stings you, it means, the person is very mad.) idiom - An expression that says one thing but has a different meaning. It is raining cats and dogs. – It is raining very hard. alliteration - The repetition of initial sounds in two or more consecutive or neighboring words. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. onomatopoeia - Word that sound like the sounds they make. Whack! Buzz! Chop! Boom! Hiss! Crack! Quack! Woof! Meow! pun - Is a play on words that are similar in sound but different in meaning; often homophones are used for this He’s a sharp as a broken pencil. – He is not very bright. Mrs. Duke put her dukes up to box in the ring on Friday. imagery – words or phrases that paint pictures in your mind vivid using sensory images. The cold white blanket covered the field as the deer danced across it.

Hyperbole – an exaggeration – I have told you a million times to stop talking. – I have told you a lot.

You also must be able to write your own examples of at least two of the types of figurative languages.