Figurative Language

Figurative Language

What does it mean?

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Which are figurative language statements

• My love is like a red, red rose.

• If I don't get the new Taylor Swift album I'm going to die!

• I like to eat tacos.

• The little dog laughed to see such sport.

• You are beautiful.

Multiple Choice

What is figurative language?

• taking words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or allegory

• you use a word or phrase that does not have its normal everyday, literal meaning.

Questions on STAAR will be based on two things...

• What kind of figurative language is being used?

• What does the statement mean or imply?

Multiple Choice

Fight Song by Rachel Platten

Like a small boat

On the ocean

Sending big waves

Into motion

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

Thank You for Being a Friend

^{Artist: Andrew Gold}

Thank you for being a friend

Traveled down the road and back again

Your heart is true you're a pal and a confidant

I'm not ashamed to say

I hope it always to say

I hope it always will stay this way

My hat is off, won't you stand up and take a bow?

And if you threw a party

Invited everyone you knew

You would see, the biggest gift would be from me

And the card attached would say,

"Thank you for being a friend"

Thank you for being a friend (3x)

The theme of the song is ....

• environtment

• friendship

• peace

• family

Multiple Choice

Compares 2 unlike things using like or as

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• simile

Multiple Choice

Compares 2 unlike things without using like or as

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• simile

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What is true about personification?

• Author's purposefully use it to make their writing harder to understand

• Personification is giving humans non-human qualities.

• Personification means to make things like leaves and pencils appear with human qualities

• Personification has something in common with similes and metaphors

Multiple Choice

Means extreme exaggeration

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

• alliteration

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A word that imitates a sound, for example BUZZ and POP:

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

Using the same letter sound throughout the sentence

• alliteratioin

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

Becky borrowed Ben's book

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

“My eyes widened at the sight of the mile-high sundaes we were having for dessert.”

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

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“Jamie runs as fast as the wind.”

• Cliche
• Simile
• Alliteration
• Personification

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Our brains are like computers: capable of massive amounts of knowledge, but too often distracted by cat videos.

• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Personification
• Simile

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The eyes are a window to the soul; when she looked at him from across the room, she knew then that she was in love.

• Simile
• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Metaphor

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Before he was allowed to go to the movies, he had to wash a million dishes by hand

• Metaphor
• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Simile

Multiple Choice

Only the moon watched as the girl ran away from home in the middle of the night.

• Simile
• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

'She sang of his love forever.'  is an example of:

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

'How sweet the sobbing violin!' is an example of:

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

"The stars will cry."

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

Roar by Katy Perry

'Cause I am a champion

You'e gonna hear me roar

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

Multiple Choice

Boom Clap by Charlie XCX

Boom clap

The sound of my heart

the beat goes

on and on and on and on and

Boom clap

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Multiple Choice

I am as hungry as a bear!

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor