8th grade, English, Review of Skills

What is a similie?

• comparing two things not using like or as

• exaggeration

• comparing two thing using like or as

• giving human characteristics to inanimate objects

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a hyperbole?

• using sounds to explain a word

• exaggeration

• comparing two things not using like or as

• giving human characteristics to inanimate objects

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is personfication?

• giving human characteristics to inanimate objects

• repetition of consonant sounds

• reference to a person, place, or thing or event in literature

• a realtionship between two concepts

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What is a metaphor?

• contrast between appearance and reality

• expression that has a figurative rather than literal meaning

• comparision of two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another thing

• comparision between two unlike things that continue throughout a series that continues throughout a series of sentences

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is onamonapia?

• a play on words

• central message or insight into life revealed through literature

• device in which words, sounds or ideas are used more than once

• words which imitates the natural sounds of a thing

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

What is an extended metaphor?

• comparision of two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another thing

• contrast between appearance and reality

• comparision between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph, or lines in a poem

• deliberate, extravegent and often outrageous exaggeration used for either comic or serious relief

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

"I've told you to clean your room a million times"! is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Metaphor

• Irony

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Slam!, Splash!, or Bam! are examples of what type of figurative language?

• Pun

• Onamonapia

• Personfication

• Similie

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"Her long hair was a flowing golden river. " is an example of what type of figurative language?

• extended metaphor

• similie

• metaphor

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"The wind howled in the night." is an example of figurative language?

• similie

• extended metpahor

• personfication

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3