Figurative Language

Which is an example of a simile?

• His room was a hurricane of a mess.
• His room looked as if a hurricane came  through.
• A hurricane! AHHH!
• The hurricane screamed through the town. 

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"The assignment was a breeze!" is an example of a(n)...

• Metaphor 
• Simile 
• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia 

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is being personified? 
The moon guided me through the forest.

• moon
• forest
• me

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CCSS.L.6.5A

Fall Fridays feel fantastic. 

• onomatopoeia
• simile
• alliteration
• metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is Imagery?

• visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
  
• a joke
• a figure of speech in which a word or action to which it is not literally applicable.
• a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A cultural saying that is particular to a specific group and may not be easily understood by others is...

•  idiom
• allusion
• alliteration
• apostrophe

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The long-legged spider slowly crept up the old, rickety barn door.  This is an example of ...... 

• Personfication
• Imagery
• Metaphor
• Simile

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"The sun begged me to get out of bed" is an example of...

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.5A

"I came in like a wrecking ball..." is an example of...

• simile
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia
• non

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Christmas takes an eternity to get arrive! 

• personification
• hyperbole
• simile
• metaphor

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A