The Skater at Ghost Lake: Figurative Languge

What type of figurative language is this?

ice black as ebony

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is simile?

• Using words that sound like their meaning.

• A comparison between two things which does not use the words “like” or “as”

  May sound false at first, but is a clever way to make a point.

• Compares one thing to another using the words “like” or “as”

• A language familiar to a group of people.

  The dialect of a people or a region.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What two things are the simile "Ice black as ebony" comparing?

• ice and black

• ice and ebony

• black and ebony

• ice and as

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

What type of figurative language is this?

ring-tinkle ring

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is onomatopoeia?

• Using words that sound like their meaning.

• A comparison between two things which does not use the words “like” or “as”

  May sound false at first, but is a clever way to make a point.

• Compares one thing to another using the words “like” or “as”

• A language familiar to a group of people.

  The dialect of a people or a region.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

What are examples of onomatopoeia? (There are more than one)

• whirrs

• crisp

• black

• violin

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What are examples of onomatopoeia? (There are more than one)

• ghost

• shadow

• pluck-plucked

• skurr

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

What type of figurative language is this?

A swaying, a swift tune, - skurr of the steel

• alliteration

• imagery

• hyperbole

• similie

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is alliteration?

• A language familiar to a group of people.

  The dialect of a people or a region.

• An idea or thing is given human attributes and/or feelings or is spoken of as if it were human

• Starting three or more words with the same sound.

• Using words that sound like their meaning.

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What type of figurative language is this?

Black is the clear glass now

• simile

• hyperbole

• rhyme

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4