Figurative Language

A __________________ is a comparison using "like or as."

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

The streetcars are like frosted cakes covered with snowflakes.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

Similes, metaphors, hyperbole and personification are all examples of ____________________________.

• resource materials

• suffixes

• figurative language

• text evidence

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

Fall Fridays feel fantastic is an example of ______________.

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

_____________________ is the use of sounds to imitate a natural sound made by an object or action.

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

• Metaphor

An expression in which words are contradictory or the opposite of each other.

• oxymoron

• onomatopoeia

• Idiom

• alliteration

The wind dances down the road is an example of ______________.

• alliteration

• personification

• oxymoron

• metaphor

The band played to a small crowd at the concert.

• idiom

• allieration

• simile

• oxymoron

Susan suddenly stretched slowly.

• personification

• metaphor

• alliteration

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

An extreme exaggeration is ______________________.

• idiom

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.4