Figurative Language

The comparison of 2 objects using "like" or "as."

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is an allusion?

• A reference to a historical moment or figure, an idea, or another piece of writing.

• The repetition of sounds in words.

• A word which imitates a sound.

• An exaggeration used to show emphasis.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

An over-exaggeration.

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Idiom

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Select the idioms.

• You were busy as a bee.

• Break a leg!

• Just hang in there!

• He is a night owl.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

A comparison where a word or phrase is used in place of another to suggest a likeness.

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Idiom

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Give an example of onomatopoeia.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"She did not realize that opportunity was knocking at her door." This is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Select the example of alliteration.

• The fat cat sat on the mat.

• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

• She had a smile that rivaled that of Mona Lisa.

• A shoe is still new till you step in blue goo.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Select the hyperboles.

• The suitcase weighed a ton!

• Christmas break will never come!

• That mall is large enough to have its own zip code.

• The thunder grumbled like an old man.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A