6th Grade Language Arts Figurative Language Review

Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally; commonly known as figures of speech is called

• simile
• figurative language
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Giving human qualities to nonhuman things is 

• idiom
• hyperbole
• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

A comparison of two unlike things using the words 'like' or 'as' is called

• personification
• simile
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in the series of words is called

• allusion

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

a reference to a person, place or event from history, literature, sports or the arts is called

• allusion

• metaphor

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

A group of words whose collective meaning is very different from their literal meaning (like it is raining cats and dogs)

• simile

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Words that imitate sounds

• metaphor
• onomatopeia
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.K.5

An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true

• hyperbole
• personification
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

A comparison of two unlike things by saying one is like the other

• simile
• personification
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

This is a picture of an exaggeration that cannot possibly be true

• hyperbole
• allusion
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3