Figurative Language Review

"Her face was as red as a tomato" is an example of which kind of figurative language?

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Broken barriers bounded by the bomb beat

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteratino

• Repetition

Different figures of speech that goes beyond the literal meanings of the words to be more descriptive. 

• Figurative Language 
• Assonance 
• Idiom
• Personification 

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

An extreme exaggeration often used for humor 

• Hyperbole 
• Idiom 
• Simile
• Alliteration 

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

An object that is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes. 

• Alliteration 
• Personification 
• Metaphor 
• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Using the same letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected words 

• Assonance
• Alliteration
• Metaphor
• Idiom 

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

"The stars danced playfully in the moonlight sky" is an example of 

• Hyperbole
• Idiom
• Personification 

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

BANG! is an example of 

• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration
• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is personification?

• The same beginning sound repeated
• Giving human characteristics to non-human things
• A word that is a sound
• An exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

A______ is a comparison of two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as".

• simile
• figurative speech
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D