Figurative Language

The use of sensory words, description, an figurative language to create mental images is

• irony

• imagery

• picture writing

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A comparison of two things without using like or as is a

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The use of words that sound like what they are naming (buzz, hum, swish) is

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• allusion

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

An extreme exaggeration or overstatement (My shoes are killing me.) is

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• irony

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Types of writing that are not meant literally including similes, metaphors, and personification are

• prose

• funny

• figurative language

• poetry

A reference to a well-known person, place, or event is an

• oxymoron

• allusion

• answer

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Repeating beginning consonant sounds of words (lucky little lions) is

• simile

• repetition

• oxymoron

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

When the writer gives a non human (animal or thing) the characteristics of a human/person, that is

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Repeating a sound, word, phrase, or sentence for emphasis is

• repetition

• personification

• simile

• irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A comparison of two things using like or as is a

• metaphor

• simile

• repetition

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D