“Tick, tock.” ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• allusion

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

“Danny strolled to the town common, sat on one of the benches in Teenytown and took one of the bottles out of the bag, looking down on it like Hamlet with Yorick's skull” ― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

• hyperbole

• personification

• metaphor

• allusion

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

”A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open”.-Frank Zappa

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

“It's a piece of cake.”

• hyperbole

• idiom

• allusion

• simile

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

I am dying of shame is an example of...

• Metaphor
• Personification
• Simile
• Hyperbole

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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

What is an example of an alliteration?

• The vase flew off of the shelf. 
• Powerful pandas punch parrots.
• The plant liked to fly.
• I like to eat pie

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"The stars will cry." The kind of figurative language used here is _______ 

• Metaphor
• Personification
• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.6.5A

What is a metaphor?

• Giving human qualities to inanimate objects
• Comparing two things using like or as
• Words that begin with the same sound
• Saying one thing is another thing

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The boy was standing like a statue on the sidewalk in everyone's way.
Which figurative language is this?

• Metaphor
• Personification
• Simile
• Hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What's the meaning of this simile?
"My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time."

• Her hair is red.
• She talks really loudly.
• She gets really angry. 
• She spits when she talks. 

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D