Reviewing Figurative Language

When a writer uses words according to their dictionary definition... 

• figurative language
• literal language

When a writer uses words in an imaginative way to express meanings beyond the literal meanings ... 

• figurative language
• literal language

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Compares two unlike things by saying one thing is another thing.
Does not use the words like or as to make a comparison.

• personification
• simile
• metaphor
• exaggeration (hyperbole)

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Uses the words like or as to compare two unlike things

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• exaggeration (hyperbole)

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Giving human qualities to something that is not human ...

• metaphor
• personification
• simile
• exaggeration (hyperbole)

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Choose which figure of speech appears in this sentence: The new pillows were like fluffy white marshmallows.

• personification
• simile
• metaphor

Choose which figure of speech appears in this sentence: The raindrops danced and jumped on the window.

• personification
• simile
• metaphor

Choose which figure of speech appears in this sentence: Belinda's fingers were icicles after her ice skating lesson.

• personification
• simile
• metaphor

Choose which figure of speech appears in this sentence: Jake was like a whirlwind, rushing from one activity to the next.

• personification
• simile
• metaphor

Choose which figure of speech appears in this sentence: The avalanche devoured anything in its way. 

• personification
• simile
• metaphor