Figurative language

What is a Simile?

• Comparing two unlike things using like or as

• Comparing two things NOT using like or as

• A saying with a little bit of wisdom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is Personification?

• The repetition of usually consonant sounds.

• giving something human qualities

• Big exaggeration

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is a metaphor?

• Using like or as to compare two unlike things

• Comparing two things NOT using like or as

• A form of word play in which the word has a double meaning.

The flowers danced in the wind is an example of:

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

You have a smile that lights up the room is an example of what type of figurative language

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Personification

This sentence is an example of what: "I feel as happy as a puppy rolling around in the grass."

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Simile

The restless children were hopping about like kernels in a corn popper.

What figure of speech is this an example of?

• Metaphore

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Personification

The book was a spaceship that transported him to strange new worlds.

What figure of speech is this?

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

This coffee shop is an ice box!

• simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

This is an example of a simile
My father is a bear in the morning. 

• True
• False

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D