Figurative Language Review

________ is the dictionary definition.

• denotation

• connotation

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

The connotation of a word is the __________ meaning.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.L.8.5C

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Connotation can be ...

• positive

• negative

• neutral

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

A comparison that uses the word "like" or "as" is a ________.

• smile

• simile

• synonym

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A comparison that calls one thing another is a _______.

• synonym

• allusion

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art, often used to make a comparison is called an ________________.

• alliteration

• allusion

• idiom

• antonym

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

______________ is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely related words.

• consonance

• alliteration

• antonyms

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

______________ gives you clues about something coming.

• foreshadowing

• figurative language

• context clues

• connotation

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Giving human qualities to something that is not human is ______________

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

_____________ is using a word that imitates the sound it represents.

• simile

• metaphor

• onomotopoeia

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4