Figurative Language Review ELA 7

Using a word or phrase that does NOT have its normal, everyday, literal meaning

• Literal language

• Figurative language

• English language

• Language

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Indication of a future event

• Flashback

• Irony

• Foreshadowing

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

A pipe is going to burst, but before it does, the author writes a scene where the family notices a small dark spot on the ceiling, but ignores it. What is this an example of?

• Foreshadowing

• Flashback

• Simile

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Irony

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CCSS.L.8.5A

A fire station burning down is an example of what?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Irony

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Irony

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

The phrase "The sun smiled at us" is an example of what?

• Flashback

• Personification

• Foreshadowing

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.6.5A

A word or phrase used to compare two unlike objects, ideas, thoughts or feelings to provide a clearer description.

• Simile

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

The phrase "The curtain of night fell upon us" is an example of....

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Flashback

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things using the words "like" or "as".

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D