Figurative Language Game

Rules

For each statement given, you and your teammate must identify
which literary device is being used by writing it on your
whiteboard. You will have 30 seconds to answer.
You may use your Figurative Language reference guide.
The first team (s) to get 20 points will be the winners. Each
question will be worth 2 points.
Each statement will contain one of the following figures of
speech:
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Hyperbole
Understatement
Oxymoron
Paradox

#1

Opportunity knocked on
the door.

Answer:

Personification

#2

On the hottest day of the

year, Mary stated, its a bit
hot out.

Answer:

Understatement

#3

He drew a line as
straight as an arrow.

Answer:

Simile

#4

The cast on Michaels

broken leg was a
plaster shackle.

Answer:

Metaphor

#5

Jane looked awfully

pretty at the dance.

Answer:

Oxymoron

#6

John always had a

taste for the fruit of
knowledge.

Answer:

Metaphor

#7

Charlie gazed hopelessly at

the endless pile of bills
on his table.

Answer:

Hyperbole

#8

She was fairly certain

that life was a
fashion show.

Answer:

Metaphor

#9

Your explanation is as
clear as mud.

Answer:

Simile/Paradox

#10

Nobody goes to that

restaurant anymore,
its too crowded.

Answer:

Paradox

#11

Ravenous and savage

from its long
polar journey,

the North Wind

is searching
for food

Answer:

Personification

#12

In capitalism, money
is the lifeblood of
society but charity is
the soul.

Answer:

Metaphor

#13
Ive got a nice place here, he said,
his eyes flashing about restlessly.

Turning me around by one arm, he moved a

broad flat hand along the front vista,
including in its sweep a sunken Italian
garden, a half acre of deep, pungent
roses, and a snub-nosed motor-boat that
bumped the tide offshore.

Answer:

Understatement

# 15- Bonus Question:

For five points, write your own example of a metaphor and an

oxymoron.