Figurative Language For ELA 7th Grade

Which of these is not an example of an onomatopoeia?

• Bang!

• Purple pickles perpetuate perfectly

• AHHHG!

• Wow!

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What are the properties of a simile?

• Uses like or as

• Does not use like or as

• Is always written in italics

• Compares two unlike things

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is the following an example of?

Jumbo Shrimp

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Oxymoron

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Choose the metaphor

• She was a ray of sunshine

• Her smile was a piano

• His car is a cheetah

• All of the above

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which of these is irony

• A muscular kid being a great athlete

• A tragedy movie ending in someone dying

• The smartest kid in the class getting the lowest grade on a test

• None of these are irony

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CCSS.L.8.5A

Which of these is not a type of figurative language?

• Flashback

• Allusion

• Idiom

• Simile

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CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Complete the simile: She was __ graceful __ a tiger

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What other is figurative language is a metaphor most like?

• Idiom

• Irony

• Oxymoron

• Simile

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Choose the idiom

• Singing squirrels sip soda with shrimp

• Making a mountain out of a molehill

• That truck is as big as a Star Destroyer

• All of these are idioms

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

An alliteration is:

• A phrase where all or most of the words start with the same sound

• A phrase where the individual words do not make sense alone

• A a person who cannot read

• A southern songbird

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4