Language Techniques revision

Bill's mood is as sour as vinegar.

• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

I've told you a million times to write your name on the paper as soon as you get it. 

• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

 Fear raced through the village. 

• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Sam was a pig for eating so much for dessert!

• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Read the sentence and choose the onomatopoeic word.
"When Hannah pressed the gas, she took off so quickly that her tires screeched."

• pressed
• screeched
• gas
• tires

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is an idiom?

• A word or phrase that has a different meaning than the individual words

• Words beginning with the same letter

• An extreme exaggeration

• A writer speaking directly to the audience

Which of the following is an idiom?

• Sally Sells Seashells

• I've a million things to do

• This quiz is a piece of cake

• The tree invited us to play and climb

What is direct address?

• Extreme exaggeration

• Comparing something using like or as

• When the writer speaks directly to the audience using the word “you, we, us.”

• Something written to make the reader laugh

Using your words to help the reader create a picture in their minds

• Imagery

• Sibilance

• Repetition

• Onomatopoeia

a figure of speech that makes a reference to a place, person, or event...

• alliteration

• personification

• allusion

• audience contact

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3