Figurative Language

What is a simile?

• Comparing two unlike things

• Words that sound like sounds

• Comparing two things using like or as

• Exaggeration

What is onomatopoeia?

• Words that sound like sounds

• Two or more words that begin with the same sound

• Exaggeration

• Giving a thing the qualities of a person

What is a metaphor?

• Giving human qualities to inanimate objects
• Comparing two things using like or as
• Words that begin with the same sound
• Saying one thing is another thing

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is hyperbole?

• Words that begin with the same sound

• Using an unbelievable exaggeration

• Words that sound like sounds

• Comparing two things that are not alike

What is personification?

• Words that sound like sounds

• A big exaggeration

• Giving human like qualities to inanimate objects and animals

• Comparing two unlike things

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.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

What is a proverb?

• An adages best friend
• A short sentence from ancient origin that gives advice
• An old familiar saying that expresses wisdom
• None of the above

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

What is alliteration?

• Exaggeration

• Comparing two unlike things

• Two or more words that begin with the same sound

• Words that sound like sound

The west wind dances down the road.

• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Idiom
• Simile

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CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

A train is a dragon that roars through the dark.

• Hyperbole
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personificati

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CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3