Identifying Figurative Language

A comparison of two dissimilar objects is called a?

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Onomotopeaia
• Personification

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which answer would be an example of a metaphor?

• The fire burned with the heat of a thousand suns.
• The fire burned like a thousand suns.
• BOOM!
• Peter picked peanuts...

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

"The old house stared at the lonely swing set in the front yard," would be an example of what literary device?

• alliteration
• simile
• personification
• symbol

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A comparison of two dissimilar objects using like or as is a?

• Simile
• Allusion
• metaphor
• Allegory

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

An object that represents something greater than itself is called a what?

• Symbol
• Personification
• Metaphor
• Aside

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A story that has two meanings, a literal and figurative, is called an?  Animal Farm is a type of this.

• Allegory
• Allusion
• Alliteration
• Apostrophe

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

The assigning of human qualities or characteristic to a non-living object is called?

• Personification
• Allusion
• Symbol
• Allegory

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CCSS.L.6.5A

"I flew high like a bird" is an example of a?

• Simile
• Allusion
• Metaphor
• Onomotopeaia

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The use of language that engages the five senses in order to create a picture.

• Imagery
• Oxymoron
• Symbol
• Alliteration

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The flag set high on the castle wall exemplifying pride in the kingdom. 
The flag is an example a?

• Symbol
• Simile
• Imagery
• Personificaton

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5