Figurative Language Review

'You are like a ray of sunshine!' is an example of:

• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• simile
• metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

This term means to use a strong exaggeration:

• personification
• idiom
• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

'Her eyes were sparkling diamonds' is an example of:

• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole
• personification

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Silly Sammy swam so smoothly' is an example of:

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• alliteration

• idiom

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is alliteration?

• A word in which the sound reflects is meaning.
  
• Repeating words or phrases
  
• Language that appeals to the five senses
• The repetition of initial consonant sounds

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The flame in the candle danced in the dark.

• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia
• personification
• simile

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What is a hyperbole?

• comparing two things using like or as
• an extreme exaggeration
• giving human traits to objects or ideas
• words or phrases that are contradictory

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Tex was tickled as he tasted the tarantula's toes.

• alliteration
• repetition
• hyperbole
• imagery

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

What is a simile?

• A comparison of two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'. 
• Giving inhuman things human like qualities
• An extreme exaggeration
• Comparison of two unlike things using ‘like’ or ‘as’
  

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

These shoes take 50 million years to put on.

• imagery
• simile
• personification
• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.6.3