Figurative Language

I am dying of shame is an example of...

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is an idiom?

• The use of symbols in writing to express something to the reader.

• An exaggeration.

• Two words that sound the same, but are spelled differently. 

• A group of words that mean something other than the literal meaning. 

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CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

The snowballs were bullets, punching me in the chest, is an example of...

• A hyperbole/personification

• A metaphor/personification

• A simile/metaphor

• Personification/Onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is a simile? 

• Comparing two unlike things without  using  like and as

• Comparing two things in a text

• Comparing two unlike things using  like and as

• None of the above

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The assignment was a breeze is an example of a(n)...

• Metaphor 

• Simile 

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia 

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

It happened once in a blue moon is an example of a(n)...

• Idiom

• Hyperbole 

• Personification

• Alliteration 

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CCSS.L.5.5B

What is personification

• Giving human qualities to a human

• Giving non living qualities to living things

• Comparing something to a nonliving thing.

• Giving human qualities to a non human things

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CCSS.L.6.5A

What is an example of an alliteration?

• The vase flew off of the shelf. 

• Powerful pandas punch parrots.

• The plant liked to fly.

• I like to eat pie

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

Onomatopoeia is...

• An exaggerated statement

• A sound effect

• A comparison of two things using like or as

• The use of a word associated with a sound.

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CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

CCSS.L.4.5

I was so tired after school, I slept for a month! 

• hyperbole

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4