Figurative Language

Literal language is -

• dictionary meaning

• over the top; imaginative

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Figurative language is -

• dictionary meaning

• over the top; imaginative

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

She is a fast runner.

• Literal

• Figurative

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

She is as fast as a cheetah.

• Literal

• Figurative

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

A sound word -

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.4.2D

A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as" -

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Compares two things by saying one is the other; a DIRECT comparison -

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.RI.3.4

Repetition of the same consonant sound -

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

An extreme exaggeration that can't possibly be true -

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Giving human characteristics to objects or things -

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D