Figurative and Rhetorical Language

What is the figure of speech?

Her family was a circus full of colorful characters, drama, and laughter.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

I am from a place where the aroma of BBQ surrounds you while listening to the crackling of the fire and watching the flames sway.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What is the point of view? "I don't remember, my memory obscured, I'm sure, by the wishful image of myself as a precocious champion of social justice." ("White Lies," Murphy, P11)

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person limited

• 3rd person omniscient

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What is the tone? "Tensions were running high that night in Indianapolis. The first three months of the year had been trubulent and the year before had been a violent one." (Kennedy Article, Liam Stack, New York Times 04/04/2018)

• Terrific

• Tense

• Joyful

• Bored

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is the point of view?

As a scientist, Throckmorton was fully aware that, should he ever break wind in the Echo Chamber, he would never hear the end of it.

• 1st Person Limited

• 1st Person Omniscient

• 2nd Person

• 3rd Person

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What is the figure of speech?

Talking to him was as frustrating as eating a hamburger with freshly painted nails.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the figure of speech?

Smiling faces, rustling papers, the swish of feet swinging back and forth; the class began cheerfully with students reading and writing and humming the school fight song.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the point of view?

You know that the date was pleasant enough, but you also know that if your life was a movie, this guy would be buried in the credits as something like "Second Tall Man."

• 1st Person

• 2nd Person

• 3rd Person limited

• 3rd Person Omniscient

Identify the metaphor

• My heart was a bucket full of joy after all the sweet compliments.
• My heart is a muscle.
• My heart is like a hand pump pushing blood all throughout my body.
• My heart is like a muscle.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which is NOT a personification?

• Traffic slowed to a crawl.

• My alarm clock yells at me every morning.

• Rita heard the last piece of pie calling her name.

• Miss Lewis has a sweet dog named Waffles.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A