Simile, Metaphor, Personification

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison using "like" or "as"
• A comparison without using "like" or "as"
• A figure of speech in which the word imitates it's meaning.
• An extreme exaggeration

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Which of the following is an example of personification?

• You are as a beautiful as a flower.
• The trees danced in the wind.
• I waited in line for 10 years!
• He is an encyclopedia of knowledge. 

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What is this is an example of: The clock on the wall laughed at me as I tried to finish my test before class ended.

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole

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What's the meaning of this simile?
"My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time."

• Her hair is red.
• She talks really loudly.
• She gets really angry. 
• She spits when she talks. 

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

What is personification?

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

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CCSS.RL.5.4

What type of figurative language is shown?
The flower hugged the earth after being blown over by the storm.

• personification
• alliteration
• metaphor
• simile

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CCSS.RL.5.4

What type of figurative language is shown?
The runner ran like a cheetah in the race.

• metaphor
• oxymoron
• simile
• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.5.4

What type of figurative language is shown?
Her long hair is an ocean of waves.

• personification
• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole
• metaphor

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

What type of figurative language is shown?
The ocean waves danced in the moonlight.

• personification
• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia
• oxymoron

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

He was a car speeding through the streets is an example of...

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Alliteration

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A