Figurative Language

What is a simile?

• A comparison of two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'. 
• Giving inhuman things human like qualities
• An extreme exaggeration
• Comparison of two unlike things using ‘like’ or ‘as’
  

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

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Jenna's mouth is one big metal factory.

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• repetition

Tex was tickled as he tasted the tarantula's toes.

• alliteration
• repetition
• hyperbole
• imagery

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

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CCSS.RL.8.4

What is a metaphor?

• A word in which the sound reflects is meaning.
  
• Language that appeals to the five senses
  
• Repeating words or phrases
• Comparison of two unlike things WITHOUT using ‘like’ or ‘as’
  

The hot pink icing sat upon the golden yellow cupcake like a sugary crown. 

• Imagery
• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Metaphor

What is personification?

• An extreme exaggeration
• Giving inhuman things human like qualities
• The repetition of initial consonant sounds
• Comparison of two unlike things using ‘like’ or ‘as’
  

The wolf howled at the moon.

• personification
• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia
• alliteration

What is hyperbole?

• An extreme exaggeration
• A word in which the sound reflects is meaning
  
• Language that appeals to the five senses
  
• The repetition of initial consonant sounds
  

Because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you know what happiness is to you
Because I'm happy
Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do

• Alliteration
• Repetition
• Imagery
• Personification

These shoes take 50 million years to put on.

• imagery
• simile
• personification
• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5