The House on Mango Street Identifying Figurative Language

"My mother's hair...is the warm smell of bread before you bake it," is an example of what figurative language?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

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CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

"My name is the Mexican records my father plays on Sunday mornings," is an example of what figurative language?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Imagery/Vivid Work Choice

• Oxymoron

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

"Windows so small you'd think they were holding their breath," is an example of what figurative language?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Paradox

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

"It's as if he let go a million moths all over the dusty furniture," is an example of what figurative language?

• Paradox

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

"My papa's hair is like a broom," is an example of what figurative language?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Assonance

• Alliteration

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

"Two girls raggedy as rats live across the street.," is an example of what figurative language?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Apostrophe

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

"I am in love with those two green apples you call eyes," is an example of what figurative language?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Consonance

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

"Rachel, you are prettier than a yellow taxi cab," is an example of what figurative language?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"Ruthie, tall skinny lady with red lipstick and blue babushka, one blue sock and one green because she forgot, is the only grown-up we know who likes to play" is an example of what figurative language?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Imagery/Vivid Work Choice

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

"I cried and ate my sandwich. The bread already greasy, the rice cold," is an example of what figurative language?

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Imagery/Vivid Word Choice

• Allusion

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10