Figurative Language Definitions

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English
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6th - 8th Grade
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Debra Jones
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FLASHCARD QUESTION
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What uses figures of speech to build meaning beyond the literal?
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Figurative language
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What is an indirect comparison that typically uses like or as? Example: She is as happy as a cat riding a unicorn through space.
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Simile
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What is a direct comparison between two objects or concepts? Example: Her long hair was a flowing golden river.
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Metaphor
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FLASHCARD QUESTION
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What gives human traits to something that is not human? Example: My alarm clock yells at me every morning to get out of bed!
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Personification
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FLASHCARD QUESTION
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What are words that resemble the sound they represent? Example: The baseball whizzed past my ear straight into the catcher’s mitt for strike 3.
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Onomatopoeia
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FLASHCARD QUESTION
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What is the repetition of the beginning consonant sound within a group of words? Example: Kathy can’t cook chocolate chip cookies continuously, can she?
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Alliteration
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FLASHCARD QUESTION
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What is the use of language that engages the 5 senses: Hearing, Sight, Taste, Smell, and Touch? Example: The scruffy black cat’s back arches and hair stands straight up when it encounters the chocolate brown snarling dog whose teeth look like little knives covered in butter.
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Imagery
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