Descriptive writing match-up activity

Technique Definition Challenge: Provide an example

1) Simile a) Giving human characteristics to

non-human things

2) Metaphor b) Uses of words that provide a

more specific description of how
things look and move/behave

3) Personification c) A comparison between two

things without using "like" or "as"

4) Hyperbole d) A comparison between two

things using "like" or "as"

5) Onomatopoeia e) Repetition of the initial sound

of several words in a phrase or
sentence

6) Dynamic verbs and f) Exaggeration for emphasis

powerful adjectives or effect

7) Sensory imagery g) The use of words that imitate the

sounds they describe

8) Alliteration h) Language that evokes one or

more of the five senses (sight,
taste, touch, smell, and sound)