Figurative Language/Poetic Devices

Match the following definition to the correct figurative language term or poetic device: A comparison, usually between two unrelated things, without using the words “like” or “as”.

• Simile

• Comparison

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Match the following poetic device to its definition: Assonance

• The repetition of vowel sounds in words that appear in close proximity in the text

• The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words in close proximity

• A word that is spelled the way that it sounds

• The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The following is an example of which type of figurative language: This quiz is as hard as Mr. Mcveigh's head.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which poetic device is used in the following example: Mr. Brake broke my bike because bats were behind me so he bashed them back but lost balance and barrelled over my bike by accident.

• Hyperbole

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Rhetorical Question

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"The test glared at me with disdain" is an example of:

• Personification

• Personalization

• Idiom

• Tests can't glare at people!

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CCSS.L.6.5A

"Mr. Maniscalco's class is the MOST BORING CLASS IN THE HISTORY OF PUBLIC EDUCATION!" This is an example of which type of figurative language:

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Imagery

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The following definition describes which type of figurative language: Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work; language that describes the five senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, smell)

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Imaginary

• Onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"Who do you think you're talking to?" is an example of which type of figurative language?

• Figurative Question

• Literal Question

• Rhetorical Question

• Who's asking a question?

Select all of the answers below that contain an idiom:

• He let him off the hook!

• Stop cutting corners!

• She really missed the boat on that one.

• She's on the ball today!

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Bing, bang, bam, pow, pop, screech, swish, boop, bap, bop, roar, squish, cling, clang, crunch, cuckoo, moo, meow. All of these are examples of which type of figurative language/poetic device?

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Batman

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5