CFU: Figurative Language

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Figurative language used: Chae Eun swore she'd never return to Newton, but I said she shouldn't say never. The city may change in ten years.

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Paradox

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Figurative language used: Buying a new cell phone? Best Buy offers locked/unlocked refurbished phones with a one-year warranty!

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Euphemism

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

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Figurative language in: 'The city of Manila is experiencing a minor crisis. Its sanitation workers are on strike, and the garbage is piling up.'

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Oxymoron

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

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Figurative language used: The scientists provided an exact estimate of the asteroid's impact time, 15 years.

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Oxymoron

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

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Figurative language used: 'I’m no Mother Teresa. I’ve made my mistakes, but I’m trying.'

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Allusion

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

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Figurative language in the lyrics: "And when you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while..."

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Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

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In Emily Dickinson's poem, the underlined words represent ______.

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Symbolisms

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

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Sound device in 'Betty's Room' poem:

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alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4