Figurative Language

Figurative Language

Week-In Review

Literal Language

•You say exactly what you mean. You make no comparison, and you do not exaggerate or understate the situation.

Figurative Language

•You DON’T say exactly what you mean. You DO compare, exaggerate, and understate the situation. You use similes, metaphors, hyperboles, and other figures of speech to make your writing more exciting.  

Multiple Choice

The sand felt rough to the touch.

• Figurative

• Literal

Multiple Choice

Grasshoppers are fiddlers that play their legs.

• Figurative

• Literal

Multiple Choice

Uses the SHAMPOO We learned on this week.

• Figurative

• Literal

Multiple Choice

The car she drove was Blue

• Figurative

• Literal

Figurative Language

• simile

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomonotopiae

• Oxymoron

Simile

•Comparing two unlike things using the words “like” or “as”.

Hyperbole

•An exaggeration so dramatic, no one could believe it; overstate to emphasize a point.

Alliteration

•The repeating of the same letter or sound, especially consonant sounds….including tongue twisters.

Metaphor

•Comparing two unlike things without using like or as. Calling one thing, another. Saying one thing is something else.

Multiple Choice

Our babysitter is the best! She has dark brown hair and is as pretty as a picture! Sometimes, she will let us have a late night snack if we are good! The only bad thing about our babysitter is that she watches us like a hawk! We can never get away with anything!

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

A flea and a fly in a flue

Were imprisoned, so what could they do?

Said the fly, “Let us flee!”

“Let us fly,” said the flea;

So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

Molly and Matt are siblings. Everybody thinks Morgan is a real peach! She has many friends and is always busy doing things to help her family. Matt is a night owl so he sleeps in all morning. He never helps his family do chores around the house! Matt always get in trouble!

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

Jill’s favorite season is winter! On December 1st , her town got a snow storm. Jill ran around her house yelling, “Our backyard is a blanket of snow!”. Jill’s dad screamed, “It’s a refrigerator in here!” Jill’s mom just wanted to sleep and said, “Silence is golden!”

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

Personification

•Giving human characteristics to things that are not human.

Onomatopoeia

•The use of a word to describe or imitate a natural sound made by an object or action. Words that sound like what they mean.

Oxymoron

Words or phrases in which contradictory or opposite terms are used together

Multiple Choice

The bright stars fade. O rose! Notes chirruping answer. Castille. The morn is breaking.

Jingle jingle jaunted jingling.

Coin rang. Clock clacked.

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Oxymoron

Multiple Choice

Controlled chaos. Kill with kindness. Old news. Small giant. Original copy. Even odds. Elevated subway.

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Oxymoron

Multiple Choice

Lightning danced across the sky. The wind howled in the night. The car complained as the key was roughly turned in its ignition. Rita heard the last piece of pie calling her name.

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Oxymoron