Figurative Language 6th

Giving human qualities to nonhuman things is 

• idiom
• hyperbole
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A comparison of two unlike things using the words 'like' or 'as' is called

• personification
• simile
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in the series of words is called

• allusion
• onomatopoeia
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Words that imitate sounds

• metaphor
• onomatopeia
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true

• hyperbole
• personification
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A comparison of two unlike things by saying one is like the other

• simile
• personification
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The flower danced in the wind.

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Her eyes were like diamonds.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Her smile was sunshine.

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• connotation

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Everyone knows the answer to that question.

• personification

• hyperbole

• tone

• mood

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3