Figurative Language

What type of figurative language is a comparison between two unlike things using LIKE or AS?

• simile
• metaphor
• alliteration
• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What type of figurative language compares two unlike objects but does NOT use like or as?  This type of fig. lang states that one thing IS something else.

• simile
• metaphor
• idiom
• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What type of figurative language has many words that begin with the same sound?
EX:  Seven silly swans swam silently.

• onomatopeia
• idiom
• alliteration
• simile

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What type of figurative language gives nonhuman objects human characteristics or mannerisms?
EX:  The curtains danced in the breeze.

• hyperbole
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia
• personification

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What type of figurative language has a totally different meaning instead of the literal one?
Ex:  When we told the secret, we let the cat out of the bag.

• idiom
• simile
• hyperbole
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What type of figurative language uses HUGE exaggeration?  EX:  I am the ONLY person at North who can't go to the game tonight!

• personification
• idiom
• metaphor
• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

In what type of figurative language does the word say the sound it makes?

• onomatopoeia
• idiom
• alliteration
• simile

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What type of figurative language is shown below:
EX:  The stalks of wheat gossiped in the breeze.

• idiom
• personification
• alliteration
• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What type of figurative language is shown below:
EX:  The cool lake water glistened like diamonds in the sun.

• idiom
• personification
• metaphor
• similes

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What type of figurative language is used below:
The thunder BOOMED, and the lightning CRACKLED.

• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• idiom
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3