Figurative Language test review

an extreme exaggeration

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• idiom

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

direct comparison of two unlike things (does not use the words "like" or "as")

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• idiom

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

a common saying with a meaning completely different from its dictionary meaning

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• idiom

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

a comparison of two unlike things, using the words like or as

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• idiom

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

when the same sound is used at the beginning of many words in a sentence

• simile
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a word that represents a sound

• simile

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

when an object is given human qualities

• simile

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

The campfire hissed and cackled into the night, filling up the silence in the woods.

• personification
• metaphor
• idiom
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Terrance Trent Tobin tried to toss his turnips in the trash.

• alliteration
• metaphor
• idiom
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Don’t let the cat out of the bag!

• onomatopoeia
• metaphor
• idiom
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5