FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

What is personification?

• The same beginning sound repeated
• Giving human characteristics to non-human things
• A word that is a sound
• An exaggeration

"When Adele walked through the store, each shiny pair of high heels called out to her."
What is being personified?

• Adele
• The store
• High heels
• Her

"After he ate the chocolate chip cookies, guilt poked and chewed at Anthony."
What is being personified?

• The chocolate chips
• The cookie
• Anthony
• Guilt

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Language that appeals to the senses

• simile
• hyperbole
• metaphor
• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

Which one of the five senses is used in this sentence? The wolf howled painfully over the loss of his mate.

• Sight
• Sound
• Touch 
• Taste

Which of the five senses is used in this sentence? The warm juicy burger felt like heaven on my tongue.

• Taste
• Touch
• Sight
• Sound

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

What type of imagery is this?
The thunder clapped loudly shaking the house

• Sight
• Sound
• Touch 
• Taste

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Why is imagery important? Choose the BEST answer. 

• It connects the reader with the words the author has written.
• It sounds better
• It provides denotative meanings to words
• It makes my paper longer

Which type of figurative language is used in the sentence below?
The sweet smell of the double chocolate cookies flows through the air. 

• Imagery
• Denotation
• Characterization
• Summary

Is this an example of imagery?
"They ate food."

• Yes
• No