Figurative Language Practice (20 questions) 2

Simile

• Comparison using like or as

• Comparison not using like or as

• Comparison of two unlike things as the same

• Comparing

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Metaphor

• Comparison using like or as

• Comparison not using like or as

• Comparing two unlike things

• Means what it means, but not literally.

Hyperbole

• Comparison using like or as

• Means what it means but not literally

• Exaggeration

• Sound or movement

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Personification

• Sound or movement

• Repetition

• Means what it means but not literally

• Giving human emotion to a non-living thing.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Onomatopoeia

• Comparison using like or as

• Giving human emotion to a non-living thing

• Sound or movement

• Means what it means but not literally

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Idiom

• Has a figurative meaning that is different from its literal meaning

• Giving nonhuman things human-like characteristics

• Comparison of two unlike things

• Sound or movement

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

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

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

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

“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

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

“I like to walk in the woods and see what Mother Nature is wearing.” - Flannery O'Connor, Good Country People

• hyperbole

• allusion

• personification

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A