Figurative Language

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

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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 following lines from Carl Sandburg's poetry contain several types of figurative language and sound devices. Which three do you notice?

It's a jazz affair when a drum crashes and cornet razzes.

The trombone pony neighs and the tuba snorts.

The banjo tickles and chuckles too awful.

The chippies talk about the funnies in the papers.

• onomatopoeia

• repetition

• simile

• alliteration

• personification

What is alliteration?

• The same beginning sound repeated

• Giving human characteristics to non-human things

• A word that is a sound

• An exaggeration

What is the definition of hyperbole?

• When a group of of words all start with the same sound.

• When words sound like what they mean.

• An extreme exaggeration

• A comparison

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

Read the following excerpt of poetry:

My lungs demanded I stop moving forward,

But still, I forced myself to continue,

Ignoring the trees that whispered all around.

As the wind howled through the night.

I’ll make it home, I’ll make it home, I’ll make it home.

Were the thoughts running around inside my mind.

I’ll make it home, I’ll make it home.

This contains many examples of...

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

What's the meaning of this simile?
"My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time."

• Her hair is red.
• She talks really loudly.
• She gets really angry. 
• She spits when she talks. 

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

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Why do people use figurative language?

• To make their writing interesting and visual, or to emphasis an idea and make a point.
• To be grammatically correct.
• To structure their writing into paragraphs.
• Because Beyonce uses it in her songs. 

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