Figurative Language

What is a simile?

• Giving non-human things, human qualities

• Comparing two things using the words "like" or "as"

• Comparing two things

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a metaphor?

• Comparing two things NOT using "like" or "as"

• Comparing two things using "like" or "as"

• An expression that can't be taken literally

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is personification?

• Giving non-human things, human qualities

• an exaggeration

• comparing two things using "like" or "as"

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CCSS.L.6.5A

What is an onomatopoeia?

• repetition of beginning sounds

• Comparing two things not using like or as

• sound words that make the actual sound when you read them, like BANG

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is an idiom?

• an expression that can't be taken literally, but the meaning is understood

• an exaggeration

• giving nonhuman things human qualities

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What is a hyperbole

• an exaggeration

• comparing two things using like or as

• sound words that make the actual sound when you read them

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is alliteration?

• repetition of the beginning sound of words

• sound words that make the actual sound when you read them

• an exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Dinosaurs desperately dug ditches to drive away dangerous dragons!

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Simile

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Bryan is as American as apple pie.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

It's raining cats and dogs outside!

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

• Simile

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5