Figurative Language/ Word Connotations

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

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

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

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

“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

“I was quaking from head to foot, and could have hung my hat on my eyes, they stuck out so far.” - Mark Twain, Old Times on the Mississippi

• hyperbole

• personification

• allusion

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

”Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary,” - Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven"

• metaphor

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

“ It’s raining cats and dogs.”

• personification

• idiom

• alliteration

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5B

CCSS.L.4.5B

Which word has the most positive connotation?

• couch potato
• relaxed
• lazy
• inaxctive

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.RL.6.4

Which word has the most positive connotation?

• modest
• shy
• introverted
• mousy

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.RL.6.4

Which word has the most negative connotation?

• curious
• full of questions
• inquisitive
• nosy

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4