What is a simile?

• Comparing two unlike things
• Words that sound like sounds
• Comparing two things using like or as
• Exaggeration

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What is alliteration?

• Exaggeration
• Comparing two unlike things
• Two or more words that begin with the same sound
• Words that sound like sound

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What is onomatopoeia?

• Words that sound like sounds
• Two or more words that begin with the same sound
• Exaggeration
• Giving a thing the qualities of a person

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CCSS.L.4.5

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What is a metaphor?

• Giving human qualities to inanimate objects
• Comparing two things using like or as
• Words that begin with the same sound
• Saying one thing is another thing

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is hyperbole?

• Words that begin with the same sound
• Using an unbelievable exaggeration
• Words that sound like sounds
• Comparing two things that are not alike

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is personification?

• Words that sound like sounds
• A big exaggeration
• Giving human like qualities to inanimate objects and animals
• Comparing two unlike things

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CCSS.L.6.5A

The restless children were hopping about like kernels in a corn popper.
What figure of speech is this an example of?

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Idiom

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CCSS.L.4.5A

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The book was a spaceship that transported him to strange new worlds.
What figure of speech is this?

• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Simile
• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The thunder roared and the lightning cracked during the storm.
What type of figurative language is this?

• Hyperbole
• Onomatopoeia
• Personification
• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

My isn't Martha's macaroni mouthwatering, madame?
What figure of speech is this?

• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Alliteration
• Simile

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4