Figurative Langauge

What is a hyperbole?

• Compares 2 things using the words "like" or "as"

• An outrageous exaggeration that emphasizes a point

• The repetition of the first consonant sound in several words

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is a metaphor?

• Compares 2 things without the words "like" or "as"

• Compares 2 things using the words "like" or "as"

• Names an action by the sound

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is personification?

• An expression with a meaning that is only known through common use

• Names an action by the sound

• Gives human characteristics (actions, feelings, thoughts) to nonhuman objects, animals or ideas

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

"Zoom, Pow, Crash" is an example of what figurative language?

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is an analogy?

• An outrageous exaggeration that emphasizes a point

• Compares 2 things that are usually thought to be different from each other, but have some similarities

• Gives human characteristics (actions, feelings, thoughts) to nonhuman objects, animals or ideas

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"The cheetah ran as fast as lightning" is an example of what figurative language?

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"You are my sunshine" is an example of what figurative language?

• Metaphor?

• Alliteration

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is an alliteration?

• The repetition of the first consonant sound in several words

• Compares 2 things that are usually thought to be different from each other, but have some similarities

• An expression with a meaning that is only known through common use

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is an idiom?

• Compares 2 things using the words "like" or "as"

• An expression with a meaning that is only known through common use?

• Names an action by the sound

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

What is a simile?

• Names an action by the sound

• Compares 2 things using the words "like" or "as"

• An outrageous exaggeration that emphasizes a point

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D