Figurative Language

This sentence is an example of what:  "I have a ton of homework."

• simile
• hyperbole
• idiom
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.4.3

This sentence is an example of what:  "Her voice was music to my ears."

• simile
• hyperbole
• idiom
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

This sentence is an example of what:  "The teenager is as hungry as a wolf."

• simile
• hyperbole
• idiom
• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

This sentence is an example of what:  "The palm trees were dancing in the wind."

• personification
• hyperbole
• idiom
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

This sentence is an example of what:  "I’ve seen this movie a thousand times."

• personification
• hyperbole
• idiom
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

This sentence is an example of what:  "You are my knight in shining armor."

• simile
• hyperbole
• idiom
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

This sentence is an example of what:  "Don’t judge a book by its cover."

• simile
• hyperbole
• idiom
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

“It's a piece of cake.”

• hyperbole

• idiom

• allusion

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

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

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

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

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A