Figurative Language

Personification

• Sound or movement

• Repetition

• Means what it means but not literally

• Giving human emotion to a non-living thing.

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

What is Alliteration

• Big Exaggeration

• Giving something human qualities

• The repetition of consonant sounds

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The little road says, Go,
The little house says, Stay

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

What is an Idiom

• A form of "Word Play" in which the word has a double meaning.

• A statement that doesn't really mean what is being said

• Comparing two unlike things

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

What is an Onomatopoeia?

• When two words are put together that contradict one another.

• Naming a thing or action by imitating the sound associated with it.

• Big exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A comparison of two unlike things stating that one thing IS the other.

• idiom

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is a Hyperbole?

• Big exaggeration

• Comparing two unlike things

• A statement that doesn't really mean what is being said.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"The tropical storm slept for days". This is an example of what figurative language device? 

• Personification 
• Simile 
• Alliteration 
• Hyperbole 

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What is Personification?

• The repetition of usually consonant sounds.

• giving something human qualities

• Big exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

"She soothed her secret sorrow." Choose the best answer: What figurative language device is being used in this sentence? 

• Alliteration 
• Personification 
• Hyperbole 
• Metaphor 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4