English II - Figurative Language Review

It feels like it's 1000 degrees outside!

• Pun
• Hyperbole
• Anaphora
• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

It was clear from the madman's rant that he wasn't playing with a full deck.

• Pun
• Consonance
• Assonance
• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

The golden yellow sunlight filtered down through the pale new leaves on the oak trees, coming to rest on Jessica's brown toes that were splayed in the red Georgia mud.

• Symbolism
• Imagery
• Tautology
• Litotes

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Hannah’s home has heat, hopefully.

• Alliteration
• Pun
• Assonance
• Metonymy

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

• Assonance
• Consonance
• Imagery
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Santa’s helpers are known as subordinate Clauses.

• Irony
• Tautology
• Pun
• Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

"It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, too like the lightning."

• Metaphor
• Irony
• Symbolism
• Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is a cliche?

• A comparison without like or as.

• Two opposing ideas.

• Tongue twisters.

• An overused phrase or saying

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Talking animals is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Cliche

• Pun

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A simile... 

• Naming a thing or an action by imitating the sound associated with it
• Big exaggeration, usually with humor
• A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as
• The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D