Figurative Language & Personal Narrative Unit Test Review

Words and phrases the have a meaning that goes beyond the literal, everyday meaning

• simile

• idiom

• figurative language

• cliche

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Alliteration is

• words that describe sounds

• an extreme exaggeration

• the repetition of beginning consonant sounds

• a phrase that combines contradictory words

Which is not a pun?

• a play on words

• How do you organize a space party? You planet.

• the use of multiple meanings of words or similar-sounding words to create humor

• an expression that has an established meaning that is unrelated to its literal meaning

A word that describes a natural sound:

• onomatapoeia

• onomatopeia

• onomatopiya

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.6.2B

Overused figurative statement that have become common and expected

• cliche

• idiom

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

An oxymoron is

• a comparison between two unlike things using like or as.

• giving human qualities to something that is not human.

• a phrase that combines contradictory terms.

• an extreme exaggeration.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

A comparison between two unlike things that uses like or as is called a

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A statement that says that one thing IS another thing:

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• pun

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A metaphor is

• a comparison between two alike things

• a comparison between two unlike things

• a comparison between two things that uses like or as

• a comparison between two unlike things that does not use like or as

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

An idiom is

• an expression that has established meaning that is not related to its literal meaning

• a phrase that is overused or expected

• a phrase the uses multiple meanings of words to create humor

• a play on words

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4