Question

Questions 1-5: Match the example on the left to the type of figurative language on the right.


1. Big and dig


2. The airplane was a ship sailing the skies.


3. The sun smiled down at the people far below.


4. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.


5. Car engines rumbled like hungry teenagers.

Answer 1

Answer:

1. Big and dig

2. The airplane was a ship sailing the skies.

Metaphor

3. The sun smiled down at the people far below.

Personification

4. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

Alliteration

5. Car engines rumbled like hungry teenagers.

Simile

Explanation:

A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two dissimilar things directly and implicitly.

Personification is giving human attributes to inanimate objects.

Alliteration is the use of similar-sounding words in a sentence, usually with the same letter repeating.

A simile is the direct comparison of two things using "like" or "as".

Sorry, I do not know the answer to number one, seeing that no options were given

Answer 2

Answer:

1. Rhyme

2. Metaphor

3. Personification

4. Alliteration

5. Simile

6) meter

7) foot

8) romantic

9) couplet

10) sonnet

Explanation:

PENN