Figurative language

Front

Identify the figure of speech: 'Fair is foul, and foul is fair; Hover through the fog and filthy air.'

Back

alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Front

Identify the figure of speech: 'I am drowning in work.'

Back

hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Front

Identify the figure of speech:

Back

oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Front

He is as _______ as a cucumber.

Back

cool

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Front

Identify the figure of speech in the image.

Back

personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Front

Identify the figure of speech using the sound effects.

Back

onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Front

In this speech mode, the words' real meanings differ from intended meanings. Example: the cobbler's child has no shoes.

Back

irony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Front

Two figures of speech involving comparisons:

Back

simile and metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Front

I bombed the Biology test. I wish I had studied harder.

Back

I failed the test.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Front

Scared by the clock's tic-toc at midnight.

Back

onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5