Figurative Language

What is Hyperbole?

• An Exaggeration

• A sound

• A comparison that uses the words "Like, or As"

• Giving things human characteristics

What is Personification?

• I don't know

• a person

• A word that gives non-living things human traits/characteristics

• A comparison that does not use the words "Like or As"

"That fur coat is as fluffy as a cloud."

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Idiom

"The lollipop is strawberry flavor."

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Metaphor

"Curiosity killed the cat."

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

What is figurative language?

• A word in a phrase that starts with the same letter or sound.

• A word that sounds like what it's describing.

• It's when a writer describes something by comparing it with another thing.

• A Exaggeration.

Crash, bang, buzz, swish, and splash are all examples of what type of figurative language?

• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia
• Oxymoron
• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Which of the following is an example of onomatopoeia.

• She was white as a ghost

• Buzz

• Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Peppers

• Break a leg

"We've been at the mall for 1 million years!"

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Idiom

• Alliteration

 “I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse!” is an example of what figurative language device? 

• Hyperbole
• Personification 
• Simile 
• Metaphor 

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A