Figurative Language/Use of Language

What do you call language that is slang or informal, such as giving someone a "guilt trip" or getting something "messed up."

• abstract
• concrete
• colloquialism
• ambiguity

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

• metaphor

• synecdoche

• apostrophe

• metonymy

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

What do you call the strategy of placing items side by side for dramatic effect - often to emphasize a crucial contrast.

• juxtaposition
• satire
• metonymy
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

• understatement
• hyperbole
• metaphor
• metonymy

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

• euphemism
• hyberbole
• apostrophe
• oxymoron

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

• euphemism
• colloquialism
• ambiguity
• oxymoron

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

• jargon
• concrete language
• colloquialism
• paradox

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

• ambiguity
• paradox
• colloquialism
• jargon

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CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What do you call the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, and/or ridicule to expose and critique society’s flaws.  

• hyperbole
• satire
• juxtaposition
• metonymy

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

• analogy
• aphorism
• allusion
• apostrophe

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CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D