FIGURE IT OUT!

You say exactly what you mean. You make no comparison, and you do not exaggerate or understate the situation.

• LITERAL LANGUAGE

• FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Read between the lines because not everything is as it appears.

• LITERAL LANGUAGE

• FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

IT IS A FIGURE OF SPEECH in which an exaggeration or overstatement is made to illustrate a point.

• SIMILE

• METAPHOR

• OXYMORON

• HYPERBOLE

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

IT IS A FIGURE OF SPEECH in which animals, ideas, or objects are given human characteristics or form.

• ALLITERATION

• APOSTROPHE

• PERSONIFICATION

• METAPHOR

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

IT IS A FIGURE OF SPEECH in which a comparison is drawn between two dissimilar or unlike things without the use of like or as.

• SIMILE

• METAPHOR

• APOSTROPHE

• PERSONIFICATION

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

“Your sister is so skinny, she has to run around in the shower to get wet!”

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The firecracker made a loud ka-boom!

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The road was a ribbon wrapped through the dessert.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Persinification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The muscles on his brawny arms are strong as iron bands.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Apostrophe

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

He’s a lion when he fights.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Apostrophe

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D