Figurative Language

"Life is a journey" is an example of what?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I nearly died laughing is an example of what?

• Metaphor

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Which of the following is an example of onomatopoeia.

• She was white as a ghost

• Buzz

• Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Peppers

• Break a leg

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

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

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Cliche

• Pun

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CCSS.L.6.5A

Which type of figurative language is used in the following Beatles song, "Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter?"

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Cliche

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which type of figurative language uses like or as to compare two unlike things?

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Cliche

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The flowers danced in the wind is an example of:

• Simile

• Personification

• Cliche

• Idiom

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CCSS.L.6.5A

"Hawaii was just like the Garden of Eden. We were mesmerized the entire time." 
What is the purpose of the allusion to "Garden of Eden"? 

• To take us back in time to Adam and Eve
• To help us understand the beauty that was experienced in Hawaii 
• To give the reader a better ability to smell all the smells the characters did
• To add suspense to the novel 

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which of these is NOT an example of an allusion?

• a reference to George Washington
• a reference to Adam and Eve
• a reference to the Boston Tea Party
• a reference to the colors in the rainbow

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CCSS.L.7.5A

A robbery at a police station would be an example of which type of figurative language?

• personification

• simile

• irony

• None of the Above