Figurative Language Review: Refugee 1-7

Which is an example of onomatopoeia?

• the heartbeat of Cuba

• Clack! Bang!

• His legs were like lead

• he was invisible

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

"The kitten's tummy purred like an outboard motor" is an example of a...

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• simile

• idiom

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

He "stopped dead in his tracks" is an example of...

• idiom

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Waleed sat like a zombie in front of the television" is an example of...

• personification

• idiom

• metaphor

• simile

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"Isabel felt as if her heart had been ripped out of her chest" is an example of ...

• hyperbole

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The following are all similes EXCEPT...

• He was covered with a fine gray powder from head to foot, like he's taken a bath in dry concrete mix.

• ...the whole building came crashing down into the street, thundering like a jet fighter.

• The air was full of dust, and it scratched and tore at his throat as it went down.

• An irregular rhythm that lay over the top of the regular beat, like a heartbeat beneath the skin.

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

"But the hatred had followed them even here, to the middle of the ocean" is an example of...

• personification

• idiom

• alliteration

• onomatopeia

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

"The old taxi's exhaust pipe made a sound like a gunshot- POK!" This is both...

• personification and idiom

• onomatopeia and hyperbole

• idiom and metaphor

• simile and onomatopeia

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Aleppo...a crown jewel of the Middle East

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"Had to go back for the phone," he told them "How else am I going to play Angry Birds?" [this was after narrowly escaping death]

• simile

• sarcasm

• metaphor

• personification

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3