Figurative Language SOL Boot Camp

"The city was a jungle" is an example of what?

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

I'm dying to see that movie.

• I can wait a little longer.
• I don't want to see the movie.
• I'm excited about seeing the movie.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The stars were diamonds in the nighttime sky.

• The stars are expensive.

• The stars are not out tonight.

• The stars were bright and sparkling.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The wind whistled through the trees during the storm. 

• personification
• simile
• metaphor
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

"Sally is the sun in my life." What does this phrase mean?

• Sally is yellow.
• Sally is standing on the roof.
• Sally is important to me.

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 below:
EX:  The cool lake water glistened like diamonds in the sun.

• idiom
• personification
• metaphor
• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Repetition of sounds at the beginning of words

• alliteration
• symbolism
• hyperbole
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

As the little boy waited for dinner, he thought to himself, "I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse." Identify the figurative language.

• Hyperbole
• Simile
• Personification
• Characterization

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The snow danced around in the wind.

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• breezy

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What is an onomatopoeia?

• a word that resembles the sound it makes
• comparing two things using "like" or "as"
• a dramatic exaggeration
• comparing two things by saying one is the other

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.K.5