Figurative Language Exit Ticket

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What is hyperbole?

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An extreme exaggeration.

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What is personification?

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Giving human characteristics to non-human things.

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What does the simile "My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time" mean?

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She gets really angry.

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What does it mean when we say "The computer in our classroom is a dinosaur"?

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The computer is old.

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If something goes wrong in a relationship, and we say that things have turned sour, what does that mean?

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Things have gone wrong.

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What is a metaphor?

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A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is a simile?

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A figure of speech that compares two different things using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is alliteration?

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The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words.

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What is onomatopoeia?

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A word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound it describes.

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What is an idiom?

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A phrase or expression that has a figurative meaning different from its literal meaning.