Figurative Language Practice

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison using "like" or "as"
• A comparison without using "like" or "as"
• A figure of speech in which the word imitates it's meaning.
• An extreme exaggeration

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the definition of hyperbole?

• When a group of of words all start with the same sound.
• When words sound like what they mean.
• An extreme exaggeration 
• A comparison 

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CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is personification?

• The same beginning sound repeated
• Giving human characteristics to non-human things
• A word that is a sound
• An exaggeration

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is an idiom?

• a phrase that means something else than what it says

• comparing two things using like or as

• an extreme exageration

• giving human traits to objects or ideas

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CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Why do people use figurative language?

• To make writing more interesting and to create images in the reader's head.
• To use fancy big words.
• To make their writing longer.
• To create a universal truth or deeper message. 

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.L.7.5D

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is a simile? 

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

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is "sensory language"?

• language that connects to the five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch) to create an image or description.
• language that has been censored (censorship)
• language that is not very descriptive
• language that is unfamiliar to the reader

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CCSS.W.7.3D

Onomatopoeia is...

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

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The water well is as dry as a bone is an example of a(n)...

• Alliteration
• Metaphor
• Simile 
• Personification

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is an example of an alliteration?

• The vase flew off of the shelf. 
• Powerful pandas punch parrots.
• The plant liked to fly.
• I like to eat pie

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.RL.2.4