5th Grade Figurative Language

Which is an example of personification?

• The cat was soft as a pile of feathers.

• You are loud as a freight train!

• The wind whistled through the trees.

• The bee BUZZED.

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CCSS.L.6.5A

QUACK is known as...

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is a simile?

• Comparing two unlike things
• Words that sound like sounds
• Comparing two things using like or as
• Exaggeration

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter.

• hyperbole
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• simile

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The play was as boring as watching paint dry.

• alliteration
• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The sun played hide and seek with the clouds.

• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia
• simile
• personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

Giving some non-human thing qualities of a human is...

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.6.5A

Simile or Metaphor:
My life is a dream.

• simile
• metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Ka-Pow!

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

I was so sick that my face turned green.

• simile

• alliteration

• idiom

• personification

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B