Figures of Speech #2

Get the show on the road

• Put a play on a road

• Watch TV on the road

• Get started

• Watch a show about a road

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

A piece of cake

• Easy

• Eat cake

• Baking a cake

• Decorating a cake

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

All thumbs

• Smart

• Sassy

• Clumsy

• Foolish

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Butterflies in your stomach

• Happy

• Hungry

• Nervous

• Mad

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

On thin ice

• Cold

• In trouble

• Walking carefully

• Hot

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

"The bright orange walls screamed at her as she walked into the room."

What is being personified?

• The walls

• The scream

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CCSS.L.6.5A

The clock on the wall laughed at me as I tried to finish my test before class ended.

• personification

• simile

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CCSS.L.6.5A

"The Flash is fast like lightning." This is an example of...

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"Superman is a man of steel." This is an example of...

• a metaphor

• an idiom

• an oxymoron

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Choose the best alliteration definition:

• The repetition of vowel sounds in close proximity.

• The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby words.

• The repetition of consonant sounds in unstressed syllables.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4