English I Exam Review

what is simile?

• Two opposite terms used as one 
• Comparison Not using like or as
• Comparison Using like or as

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

What is a metaphor?

• comparison without using like or as
• Comparison using like or as 
• Give human traits to a non-human

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is personification? 

• Give human traits to a non-human character 
• give human traits to a real character 
• Over-exaggeration
• Comparison without using like or as

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CCSS.L.6.5A

What is oxymoron? 

• Over-exaggeration Two
•  opposite terms used as one 
• Give human traits to a non-human

What is hyperbole? 

• Giving human traits to a non-human
• Two opposite terms used as one 
• Over- exaggeration 

What is an example of a simile 

• Your hair is the sun
• your hair shines like the sun 

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

What is an example of a personification? 

• The tree started talking to me 
• the tree was blowing in the wind
• The tree danced in the moonlight

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

What is an example of metaphor? 

• love is an ocean 
• Love is like an ocean 
• The ocean danced playfully

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is NOT an example of an oxymoron? 

• Jumbo Shrimp
• Walking Dead
• Act naturally
• So hungry I could eat a horse

What is an example of an hyperbole? 

• He jumped high 
• He jump so high it look he was was in the sky