Figurative Language Review

Language that is meant to be taken or interpreted exactly the way it is written is...

• literal

• figurative

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Language that is meant to be interpreted in an imaginative way is...

• literal

• figurative

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

A type of figurative language that compares two unlike things using LIKE or AS is called a __________

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A type of figurative language that compares two unlike things as if one thing IS another thing is called...

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Hyperbole is...

• when human qualities are given to non-human things.

• comparing two unlike things using like or as.

• an extreme exaggeration.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"It was raining cats and dogs" is an example of...

• idiom

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

"Life is a highway" is an example of a _____________.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"The wind screamed through the trees" is an example of...

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"I will love you until the rivers run dry" is an example of...

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

When Forrest Gump said, "Life is like a box of chocolates," he was using an example of _______.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4