figurative language

What is personification?

• comparing two things using like or as
• giving human traits to objects or ideas
• a dramatic exaggeration
• a word that resemebles the sound it represents

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TEKS.ELA.5.8

TEKS.ELA.6.7

TEKS.ELA.7.7

TEKS.ELA.8.7

TEKS.ELA.E3.6

What is alliteration?

• giving human traits to objects or ideas
• a phrase that means something else than what it says
• repeating the same initial sound in neighboring words
• a contradictory phrase

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TEKS.ELA.5.8

TEKS.ELA.6.7

TEKS.ELA.7.7

TEKS.ELA.8.7

TEKS.ELA.4.8

What is an onomatopoeia?

• a word that resembles the sound it makes
• comparing two things using like or as
• a dramatic exaggeration
• comparing two things by saying one is the other

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TEKS.ELA.E1.6B

TEKS.ELA.CW.4A

TEKS.ELA.3.10D

What is a hyperbole?

• comparing two things using like or as
• an extreme exaggeration
• giving human traits to objects or ideas
• words or phrases that are contradictory

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TEKS.ELA.E1.6B

TEKS.ELA.CW.4A

TEKS.ELA.3.10G

TEKS.ELA.5.10G

TEKS.ELA.7.12H.II

What is an idiom?

• a pharse that means something else than what it says
• comparing two things using like or as
• an extreme exageration
• giving human traits to objects or ideas

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TEKS.ELA.5.8

TEKS.ELA.6.7

TEKS.ELA.7.7

TEKS.ELA.8.7

TEKS.ELA.E1.6

What is a simile?

• a phrase that means something else than what it says
• comparing two things by saying one is the other
• comparing two things by using like or as
• a word that resembles the sound it represents

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TEKS.ELA.5.8

TEKS.ELA.6.7

TEKS.ELA.7.7

TEKS.ELA.8.7

TEKS.ELA.4.8

What is a metaphor?

• comparing two things using like or as
• repeating the same inital sound in neighboring words
• a phrase that means something else than what it says
• comparing two things by saying one is the other

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TEKS.ELA.E1.6B

TEKS.MATH.7.9D

TEKS.ELA.5.10D

TEKS.ELA.6.9D

TEKS.ELA.8.9D

What type of figurative language is shown?
The thunder boomed in the storm.

• oxymoron
• personification
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia

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TEKS.ELA.E1.6B

TEKS.ELA.CW.4A

TEKS.ELA.3.10D

What type of figurative language is shown?
Pansy pranced playfully around the playground.

• hyperbole
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• oxymoron

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TEKS.ELA.E1.6B

TEKS.ELA.CW.4A

TEKS.ELA.1.9B

TEKS.ELA.4.10D

What type of figurative language is shown?
The flower hugged the earth after being blown over by the storm.

• personification
• alliteration
• metaphor
• simile

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TEKS.ELA.E1.6B

TEKS.ELA.CW.4A

TEKS.MATH.7.9D

TEKS.ELA.4.9B