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Figurative Language Activity | At the World's Biggest Food Fight...

Figurative Language Activity | At the World's Biggest Food Fight...

Readers join Diego and Vanna in the middle of the wildest cafeteria food fight in school history and identify figurative language in fun, themed sentences. This activity covers these techniques: simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, and understatement.

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Level B - Proficient

Read the examples and figure out which technique is being used: simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, or understatement. Then, explain how you figured out your answer.
The air in the cafeteria was heavy enough to flatten a hat.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
Diego placed his lunch tray on the table like a librarian might put down a rare book.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
The first flying meatball was the starting gun for the cafeteria chaos.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
Time crawled slowly as the meatball flew through the air.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
An endless amount of time passed before the saucy meatball landed on Mrs. Ladle's tray.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
Like a general sending his troops into battle, Big Rufus opened his mouth and screamed, "Food fight!"
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
The cafeteria became a swirling snow globe of mashed potatoes.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
Mrs. Ladle wiped the spaghetti sauce off her glasses and said that this might be a tiny setback.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
The milk cartons stood at attention and waited for action.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
The mashed potatoes piled up so high that Diego could’ve climbed to the ceiling.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
Vanna looked at her lunch tray and saw her strawberry Jello shaking with fear.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
Diego wiped a massive scoop of mashed potatoes from his hair and mentioned that it was just a tiny spill.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
Spaghetti noodles hung from the lunchroom ceiling like paper mobiles.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
The sixth graders protected themselves behind the green fortress of the salad bar.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
The crash of falling lunch trays could be heard three towns over.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
Mrs. Ladle called the office and said there was a bit of a commotion in the cafeteria.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
A flying pile of spaghetti hit the wall and sounded like a wet high-five.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
Diego had pudding dripping from his ears and Vanna said that it wasn't his best look.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
The principal snuck into the lunchroom like a virus.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
Big Rufus was the Statue of Liberty, standing tall on a table and holding a scoop of noodles.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
A glob of noodles tiredly hanging from the ceiling finally gave up and fell on the principal.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
Big Rufus tried to explain that he was only sharing his noodles with Diego.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
Big Rufus may never see the world outside of the principal's office again.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
The cafeteria ceiling wept pasta sauce.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?
The students had painted the cafeteria walls with a mural of sauce.
Which technique is being used?
How do you figure?