Figurative Language: S, M, P, A,

A simile.....

• tells what a person likes

• compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as" or "than"

• compares two or more things

• tells what a person is doing

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I like to eat fish.

• Simile

• Not a simile

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I am as quick as a fox.

• simile
• not a simile

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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?

• a comparison of two or more things WITHOUT using "like," "as" or "than"

• giving human characteristics to non-living things

• Peter Piper picked a pale of purple peppers

• An exaggeration

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is an example of metaphor?

• You are like an elephant.

• You are like a lion.

• You are the goat.

• The trees danced in the wind.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Life is a highway

• a metaphor

• not a metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The ocean waved goodbye.

• metaphor

• not a metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is the definition of personification?

• an author gives human traits or characteristics to an animal or object

• an author's way of developing a character through the character's words, thoughts, and actions

• concrete details of a story that appeal to the senses of sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste

• the perspective from which the author presents the actions and characters of a story

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

The fire swallowed the village

• personification

• not personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

The deer walked into the fields.

• personification

• not personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A