figurative language

What is a metaphor

• Comparing 2 different things

• Using like or as

• Same letter sound

• A sound written as a word

What is personification

• Using like or as

• Comparing 2 different things

• Giving human qualities to a non-human item

• A saying exaggerating

I have a million things to do today.

• Hyperbole
• Not a Hyperbole

What is a hyperbole?

• An extreme exaggeration
• A little exaggeration
• Similar sounds
• Compares two things using like or as

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A simile.....

• tells what a person likes
• compares two unlike things using the words like or as
• compares two similar things 
• tells what a person is doing

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I'm tired. Let's hit the hay.

• Let's get our anger out.

• Let's go eat hay.

• Let's go to sleep.

What is an alliteration?

• suggests something is another

• gives human qualities to a non-human thing

• repeated beginning sounds in a sentence

• compares two things using "like" or "as"

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is a onomatopoeia

• Using like or as

• A sound written as a word

• comparing 2 different things

• no onomatopoeia

Time flies by! 

• idiom
• simile
• onomatopoeia
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

I am as hungry as a bear! 

• hyperbole
• alliteration
• simile
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3