Figurative Language NOTES

It is an expressive use of language in which words are used to mean something other than their literal sense to create an image in the reader's mind.

• idiom

• simile

• figurative language

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Which compares two different things using the words like or as?

• simile

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which compares two different things WITHOUT using like or as?

• simile

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A phrase or expression that cannot be taken literally. Example: It was raining cats and dogs.

• idiom

• hyperbole

• personification

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Gives human traits to something that is not human.

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A section in poetry. They are usually separated by a blank line.

• personification

• hyperbole

• stanza

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

"I am so hungry that I could eat a horse" is an example of a...

• personification

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The repetition of beginning sounds. Example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• stanza

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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 formation of a word from a sound is associated with what is named. Example: meow, pow! crash!

• alliteration

• simile

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What type of figurative language is this?
"Life is a highway. I'm gonna' ride it all night long."

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D