Analyzing Figurative Language

Which of the following is an example of personification?

• You are as a beautiful as a flower.
• The trees danced in the wind.
• I waited in line for 10 years!
• He is an encyclopedia of knowledge. 

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CCSS.L.6.5A

"As straight as an arrow" is an example of what?

• simile
• alliteration
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which is an example of a simile?

• His room was a hurricane of a mess.
• His room looked as if a hurricane came  through.
• A hurricane! AHHH!
• The hurricane screamed through the town. 

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison using "like" or "as"
• A comparison without using "like" or "as"
• A figure of speech in which the word imitates it's meaning.
• An extreme exaggeration

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The ball jumped out of the receiver's hands. 

• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

I was so tired after school, I slept for a month! 

• hyperbole
• simile
• alliteration
• metaphor

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The sun stretched its golden arms across the land.

• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

Jeremy clammed up when he thought others would tease him about his ideas.

• Jeremy kept his ideas to himself.
• Jeremy enjoyed fishing.
• Jeremy spoke freely.

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

My feet are killing me!

• alliteration
• hyperbole
• idiom
• metaphor

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The sad student sat silently in the room. This is an example of ......

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• personification

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CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5