Figurative Language (Tic-Tac-Toe)

Type of Figurative Language	Example	Page Number	Definition of Figurative Language
1. Personification	“An everlasting funeral marches around your heart.”	Page 54	Giving human characteristics to non-living things.
2. Simile	“I will fall like an ocean on the court.”	Page 78	A comparison of two similar things using like or as.
3. Metaphor	“The Magistrate sits in your heart and judges you.”	Page 55	A comparison of two similar things not using like or as.
4. Alliteration	“What weighty work we do.”	Page 58	Repetition of initial consonant sounds.
5. Allusion	“The crowd will part like the sea of Israel.”	Page 53	A reference to a person, place, or etc. that the audience should recognize.
6. Irony	John Proctor did not recite one of the ten commandments, “Thou shall not commit adultery.”	Page 67	The use of words that means the opposite of what you really think.
7. Hyperbole	“The farm is a continent when you go foot by foot.”	Page 51	An exaggerated figure of speech for emphasis or effect.
8. Simile	“She raises up her chin like the daughter of a prince.”	Page 52	A comparison of two similar things using like or as.
9. Metaphor	“Theology is a fortress.”	Page 67	A comparison of two similar things not using like or as.
10. Hyperbole	“Oh, Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.”	Page 55	An exaggerated figure of speech for emphasis or effect.