Figurative Language

A deliberate over exaggeration to impress or stress is called

• personification

• Hyperbole

• idiom

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

To give human qualities to non human things is called:

• hyperbole

• simile

• personification

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Figurative language that does not mean what is said is called:

• personification

• metaphor

• alliteration

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

A word that is created to imitate real sounds is called

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

To compare two or more things by using the words like or as

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• onomatopeoia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

To mean what you say is

• metaphor

• figurative language

• literal language

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

a sentence or phrase that begins with the same letter and sound

• metaphor

• idiom

• alliteration

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a poetic comparison that does not use the words like or as

• alliteration

• idiom

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

To not mean exactly what you say is called:

• Figurative language

• metaphor

• Literal language

• similie

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What type of figurative language:

The moon was a bright ball of smoke in the night sky.

• idiom

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D