Simile, Metaphor, and Imagery

What is the figure of speech?

"There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot."

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

What is the figure of speech?

Her family was a circus full of colorful characters, drama, and laughter.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Imagery

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

I am from a place where the aroma of BBQ surrounds you while listening to the crackling of the fire and watching the flames sway.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

What is the tone? "Tensions were running high that night in Indianapolis. The first three months of the year had been trubulent and the year before had been a violent one." (Kennedy Article, Liam Stack, New York Times 04/04/2018)

• Terrific

• Tense

• Joyful

• Bored

What is the figure of speech?

Talking to him was as frustrating as eating a hamburger with freshly painted nails.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

What is the figure of speech?

Smiling faces, rustling papers, the swish of feet swinging back and forth; the class began cheerfully with students reading and writing and humming the school fight song.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

What is the figure of speech?

The students are all stars brightening up the sky.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

What is the best definition of imagery? 

• Imagery is the author’s use of language that appeals to the five senses in order to help the reader imagine what is being described.
  
• An act of saying what will or might happen in the future.
•  A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as.
• Exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.W.11-12.3D

This sentence appeals to which sense:

The concert was so loud that her ears rang for days afterward.

• sound
• sight
• smell
• touch

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CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

This sentence appeals to which sense:

The sunset was the most gorgeous they’d ever seen; the clouds were edged with pink and gold.

• sight
• smell
• touch
• taste

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CCSS.L.8.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5