Figurative Langauge

Poll

How easily would you be able to recognize figurative language in a text?

• Easy Peasy

• I would be able to look carefully and find it.

• I wouldn't be able to identify it in text.

• I don't know what figurative language is.

Multiple Choice

What is figurative language?

• a repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more words.

• a word or phrase that does not have its normal every day, literal meaning.

• A comparison of two unlike things that uses like or as.

• a set of expression interpreting two or more words.

Time is money. ​

Her heart is gold.

​You are my sunshine.

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Examples

Figurative Language that compares two things by using one kind of object to suggest the likeness between them.

What is it?​

​Metaphor

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Multiple Choice

What do you call a figurative language phrase that compares two things by using an object to suggest the likeness between them?

• Idiom

• Simile

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

A simile is....

• a word or phrased used to describe something.

• a repetition of words in a sentence.

• a comparison of two unlike things introduced by "like" or "as"

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Type the Similes you find

It was so big it made me faint when I woke up I was in a giant trash bag ,It smelled as if I was in a shoe. I was in the clouds in his house up the beanstalk. When we were going up the beanstalk we were higher than the birds and the airplanes. We got into the house it was like the size of 3 of the Eiffel towers.

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Type the Metaphors you can find.

The flames of the fire shot up faster than a trio of lightning bolts. The thunderous roar of the ceiling’s collapse was loud enough to wake the dead. In a moment’s time, I learned Clare knew how to drive, and I mean really drive. The flames nipped at our rear bumper but not even those lightning bolts could catch us now.