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Figurative Language and Sound Devices

Authored by Scott Twerdahl

English

6th Grade

CCSS covered

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Figurative Language and Sound Devices
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which sound device is being used in this line?

Softly and slowly the snowflakes fell

Metaphor

Rhyme

Alliteration

Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

Idiom

Hyperbole

Simile

Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which device is being used in this line?

I looked outside and it was raining cats and dogs

simile

metaphor

presonification

idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

Metaphor

Idiom

Simile

Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

Rhyme

Simile

Hyperbole

Personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

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