Figurative Language

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

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Simile or Metaphor:
The city is a sea of sadness.

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• alliteration

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CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

What does this mean?
When my great uncles drives, he is as slow as a turtle. 

• very slow
• moves pretty quickly
• still beats everyone
• he's super fast

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CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

On the way up north to the cabin,
the sunshine sits in my lap all morning. 
This is an example of: 

• personification
• metaphor 
• simile

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CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

The car is a dinosaur so we better buy a new one.

• The car is very old.
• The car was truly made in prehistoric times.
• The car is very new.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

How sweet the sobbing violin

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.5A

"Achooo" is an example of what?

• metaphor
• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• 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

"My monkey is making me mighty mad" is an example of what?

• simile
• onomatopoeia
• metaphor
• alliteration

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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 clock on the wall laughed at me as I tried to finish my test before class ended.

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.5A

This sentence is an example of what:  "I have a ton of homework."

• simile
• hyperbole
• idiom
• metaphor

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3