Extras 10: Figurative language

Question 1

What is a simile?

Answer 1

Comparing something to being similar to something else

Question 2

What is a metaphor?

Answer 2

Saying something is the same as something else, even if it doesn’t make sense

Question 3

What is alliteration?

Answer 3

Repeating the first letter in two or more neighbouring words

Question 4

What is hyperbole?

Answer 4

When you over-exaggerate something

Question 5

What is understatement?

Answer 5

Representing something as less than what it is

Question 6

What is personification?

Answer 6

When you describe an object as if it was human

Question 7

What is allusion?

Answer 7

When you refer to another (famous) person or place, to compare something or someone to

Question 8

What is symbolism?

Answer 8

Using symbols (like colours or icons) to represent ideas

Question 9

What is an oxymoron?

Answer 9

A phrase that uses two opposite words

Question 10

What is a cliche?

Answer 10

A word or phrase that has been used too much

Question 11

What is sarcasm?

Answer 11

Where words say one thing but actually mean the

opposite

Question 12

What is onomatopoeia?

Answer 12

Words that sound like their meaning

Question 13

Give an example of a simile

Answer 13

As sly as a fox

You smell like a rose

Question 14

Give an example of a metaphor

Answer 14

You are my sunshine

The snow is a white blanket

Question 15

Give an example of alliteration

Answer 15

The wild, wooly walrus waits

Question 16

Give an example of hyperbole

Answer 16

I’ve told you a million times before

Question 17

Give an example of understatement

Answer 17

It’s a bit windy today (when there is actually a terrible storm outside)

Question 18

Give an example of personification

Answer 18

The fire swallowed the entire forest

Question 19

Give an example of allusion

Answer 19

I am the Picasso of the family

Question 20

Give an example of symbolism

Answer 20

Life is a roller-coaster

The roller-coaster represents something that is scary and unpredictable. Notice this sentence is also a metaphor.

Question 21

Give an example of an oxymoron

Answer 21

I’m having a minor crisis

Question 22

Give an example of a cliche

Answer 22

It’s a game of two halves

She’s running like a headless chicken

Question 23

Give an example of sarcasm

Answer 23

Thank you so much for throwing my homework in the bin

Question 24

Give an example of onomatopoeia

Answer 24

Crack, crash, swish