Figurative Lang review

What is Figurative Language?

• Language that can be taken literally
• language that cannot be taken literally

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Simile:

• comparing using LIKE or AS
• directly comparing
• comparison that extends through the poem

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Metaphor: 

• Giving human qualities to nonliving objects
• comparison that extends through the poem
• directly comparing

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Extended Metaphor: 

• Making a reference to a famous piece of literature
• comparison that extends through the poem
• comparing using LIKE or AS

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Personification: 

• Giving human qualities to nonliving objects
• making reference to a famous piece of literature
• directly comparing

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Allusion: 

• making reference to a famous piece of literature
• comparison that extends through the poem
• directly comparing

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Hyperbole: 

• story with a moral or a lesson
• exaggeration
• talking to something nonliving as if it is living

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Analogy: 

• meaning or feeling associated to a word 
• the dictionary definition
• comparing unlike things with similar qualities

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Allegory: 

• Story with moral or lesson
• exaggeration
• the dictionary definition 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Apostrophe: 

• talking to something nonliving as if it is living
• exaggeration
• comparing unlike things with similar qualities

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4