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.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• A comparison without using "like" or "as"

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which of the following in an example of onomatopoeia?

• Boom!

• No!

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is the definition of hyperbole?

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

• An extreme exaggeration

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Which of the following is an example of personification?

• You are as a beautiful as a flower.

• The trees danced in the wind.

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CCSS.L.6.5A

"As straight as an arrow" is an example of what?

• simile

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is this is an example of: The clock on the wall laughed at me as I tried to finish my test before class ended.

• personification

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.6.5A

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."

• She gets really angry.

• She talks really loudly.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is personification?

• The same beginning sound repeated

• Giving human characteristics to non-human things

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CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

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.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3