Figurative Language Advanced

Most monsters don’t mind making messes.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The ice sculptor’s hands fluttered like hummingbird wings.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

She was fairly certain that life was a fashion show.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is an Example of Alliteration?

• She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
• She was giving him the cold shoulder
• He was fuming like a pot.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

In war the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor.

• Understatement
• Hyperbole
• Litotes
• Antithesis

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

I speak not from ignorance, but from experience.

• Understatement
• Hyperbole
• Litotes
• Antithesis

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

After the walk through the dessert, Kim’s tongue felt dry as a bone. 
What are the words in blue an example of?

• Simile
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which of the following is a euphemism for LYING

• Telling a fib
• Deviating from the truth
• Tell a tall tale
• All of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

She's gone to a better place is a euphemism for...

• She's on vacation
• She's dead
• She's left the country
• She's in Florida

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

____________ use less harsh terminology.

• Euphemisms

• Colloquialisms

• Neither