Monday Figurative Language

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

The assignment was a breeze is an example of a(n)...

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a metaphor?

• Comparing two things in a text
• Comparing two things using like and as
• An over exaggeration 
• Comparing two things without using like and as

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The water well is as dry as a bone is an example of a(n)...

• Alliteration
• Metaphor
• Simile 
• Personification

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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

What is a hyperbole?

• An exaggerated statement not to be taken literally. 
• Telling the truth
• Comparing a rock to a island
• Break a leg

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

I am dying of shame is an example of...

• Metaphor
• Personification
• Simile
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The west wind dances down the road.

• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Idiom
• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A train is a dragon that roars through the dark.

• Hyperbole
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personificati

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The sun smiled after the rain stopped. 

• Personification
• Idiom
• Hyperbole
• Metaphor

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CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3