Figurative Language

What is Alliteration

• Big Exaggeration

• Giving something human qualities

• The repetition of consonant sounds

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

What is a Simile?

• Comparing two unlike things using like or as

• Comparing two things NOT using like or as

• A saying with a little bit of wisdom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

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.RL.2.4

What is a Hyperbole?

• Big exaggeration

• Comparing two unlike things

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

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is Personification?

• The repetition of usually consonant sounds.

• giving something human qualities

• Big exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is a metaphor?

• Using like or as to compare two unlike things

• Comparing two things NOT using like or as

• A form of word play in which the word has a double meaning.

My brother is a night owl.

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4A

The crafty crocodile invited the lazy lion to his party.

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

Harry is as blind as a bat without his glasses.

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Alliteration

The classroom was a zoo!

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration