1. Figurative Language Definitions Figurative Language Examples
Mango Street Jeopardy
Figurative Language Definitions
Brushstrokes
Definitions
Figurative Language Examples
Character Details
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2. To compare two things using like or as?
Category

3. Reference to a famous person place, event, or literature?
Category

4. Repetition of consonant sounds
at the beginning of words?

5. Words that imitate sounds

6. Compare two things without
like or as?

7. Looks like a verb, but acts like
an adjective and ends in (ing) or
(ed)?

8. Noun plus a participle-usually at
the beginning of a sentence?

9. Describing words that follow
a noun?

10. A noun that renames another noun?

11. When the motorcycle rode by, it
yelled and screamed at the kids to
move out of the way?

12. Shows action in a sentence-not
in the passive voice?

13. The couch was a cup, holding
all of the kids watching the movie.

14. When we arrived, the lights on the roller
coasters shined bright red and yellow, and the
clown with big blue balloons greeted
everyone at the gate.

15. The hotel room was as cold
as ice because the air conditioner
had been running for hours.

16. Her hair reminded me of Rapunzel
because it was so very long.

17. Esperanza’s younger sister?

18. One of Esperanza’s sassiest friends and
a neighbor?

19. The narrator of the story?

20. She attends college and sees
mice when she studies!

21. She wears make up at school
but takes it off when she gets
home so her dad does not get
mad at her?

22. Splashing and laughing, the
children played in the kiddie pool
in the backyard.

23. All of the cars, shiny, blue, and
new, just arrived at the lot for
customers to buy.

24. The kitchen smelled of cinnamon and
cloves while we sat and ate apple pie,
rich and buttery.

25. Celebrating,
the students cheered when the
principal announced school was
ending early.

26. The kittens, insane demons, hardly ever sleep.