Figures of Speech

The camel is the ship of the desert.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"You killed my family and I don't like that kind of thing," is an example of what figure of speech?

• Understatement

• Anaphora

• irony

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

We use (figure of speech) to emphasize the importance or overstate something.

• Onomatopoeia

• irony

• Hyperbole

• Metonymy

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

"The bees buzzed around the garden" is an example of what figure of speech?

• Metaphor

• Synecdoche

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"My mother is like a star in the night sky"

• Personification

• Metonymy

• Metaphor

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"He is as brave as the lion" is an example of metaphor.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Hyperbole is composed of a pair of contradictory words.

• True

• False

Understatement uses less than whatever is intended.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Synecdoche is the opposite of understatement.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

"Arf! Arf! Whitey says" is an example of onomatopoeia.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5