Figurative Fourth Grade Language

Which is an example of a simile?

• His room was a hurricane of a mess.

• His room looked as if a hurricane came through.

• A hurricane! AHHH!

• The hurricane screamed through the town.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• A comparison without using "like" or "as"

• A figure of speech in which the word imitates it's meaning.

• An extreme exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

Which of the following in an example of onomatopoeia?

• Boom!

• No!

• Yes!

• Go!

Which of the following is an example of personification?

• You are as a beautiful as a flower.

• The trees danced in the wind.

• I waited in line for 10 years!

• He is an encyclopedia of knowledge.

"As straight as an arrow" is an example of what?

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

What is this is an example of: The clock on the wall laughed at me as I tried to finish my test before class ended.

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

What is personification?

• comparing two things using like or as
• giving human traits to objects or ideas
• a dramatic exaggeration
• a word that resembles the sound it represents

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What is alliteration?

• giving human traits to objects or ideas
• a phrase that means something else than what it says
• repeating the same initial sound in several words
• a contradictory phrase

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

What is an onomatopoeia?

• a word that resembles the sound it makes
• comparing two things using "like" or "as"
• a dramatic exaggeration
• comparing two things by saying one is the other

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4A

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

What is a simile?

• a phrase that means something else than what it says

• comparing two things by saying one is the other

• comparing two things by using like or as

• a word that resembles the sound it represents

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A