Figurative Language

Words that imitate sounds are examples of:

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

When you compare two things using like or as, it is a...

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

When you compare two things by saying that one is the other, it is an example of a...

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• onomotopoeia

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

An extreme exaggeration is what type of figurative language...

• alliteration

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Giving human characteristics to something that is not human is called...

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

When the same consonant sound is repeated it is known as...

• alliteration

• personification

• rhyming

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Words or phrases that are not meant to be taken literally are called

• idioms

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Name the figurative language used: Her eyes are shimmering rays of sunshine.

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Name the figurative language used: When I take off my glasses I am as blind as a bat

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"The snake slithered silently through the sand." This is an example of...

• personification

• hyperbole

• inference

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4