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. 

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What is a simile? 

• Comparing two things without  using  like and as
• Comparing two things in a text
• Comparing two things using  like and as
• None of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a metaphor?

• Comparing two things in a text
• Comparing two things using like and as
• An exaggeration 
• Comparing two things without using like and as

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a hyperbole?

• An exaggerated statement not to be taken literally. 
• a comparison using like or as
• repeating the beginning consonant sounds
• none of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Onomatopoeia is...

• An exaggerated statement
• A type of bug
• A comparison of two things using like or as
• The use of a word associated with a sound.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"He was as cool as a cucumber." is an example of a(n)

• Simile
• Alliteration
• Metaphor
• None of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What type of figurative language is shown?
Pansy pranced playfully around the playground.

• hyperbole
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What type of figurative language is shown?
I have told you a million times not to do that!

• personification
• alliteration
• hyperbole
• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is Imagery?

• visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
  
• a joke
• a figure of speech in which a word or action to which it is not literally applicable.
• a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"The last time we talked
The night that I walked
Burns like an iron
in the back of my mind"

• Onomatopoeia
• Simile
• Alliteration
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9