Figurative Language and Sound Devices

What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?

• Only similes compare two unlike things.

• Only metaphors use like or as in the comparison

• Similes are literal statements

• Similes use like or as, while metaphors do not

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which sound device is being used in this line?

Softly and slowly the snowflakes fell

• Metaphor

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

• Idiom

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which figurative device is being used in this line? The salmon we caught was bigger than the boat!

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Which device is being used in this line?

I looked outside and it was raining cats and dogs

• simile

• metaphor

• presonification

• idiom

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Which figurative device is being used in this line? The old tree stretched his long and gangly fingers towards the sky.

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

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CCSS.L.6.5A

Which term fits this definition? A comparison between two unlike things with "like" or "as."

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Simile

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

Which term fits the following definition? The act of giving human qualities, emotions, or body parts to an inanimate object.

• Rhyme

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

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CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Which term fits the following definition? A word that sounds like the thing it describes.

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Which term fits the following definition? An expression that has a meaning that has little to do with the words that compose it (create it).

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Which term fits the following definition? An exaggeration that is so extreme that no one could possibly take it literally.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A