Figurative Language Review

What words have to be used for a simile?

• comparison using like or as

• comparison not using like or as

• an extreme exageration

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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?

• Comparison using like or as

• an extreme exaggeration

• Comparison not using like or as

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is personification?

• Giving human traits to non-human things

• Describing a person

• Extreme exaggeration

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CCSS.L.6.5A

What is a hyperbole?

• Something like the Superbowl

• Extreme exaggeration

• Figure of speech that does not mean its literal meaning

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is an idiom?

• Figure of speech that does not mean its literal meaning

• The word that imitates the sound

• Comparison using like or as

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

What is an Onomatopoeia?

• The word that imitates a sound

• Comparison using like or as

• Extreme exaggeration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Which of the following is a simile?

• The tree lifts its arms for the bird to sit on.

• Mr. Thomas is like a cheetah when he runs.

• Mrs. Paulsen is an alien from another world.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which of the following is a metaphor?

• The board is like a portal to knowledge.

• Mrs. Stevenson is a rock star performing her lessons live.

• Boom, goes the dynamite!!!!

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which of the following is personification?

• The chicken went cluck.

• The tree's fingers wiggled in the wind.

• I am so hungry, I could eat a horse.

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CCSS.L.6.5A

Which of the following is an idiom?

• My sister is under the weather today.

• Math is like fighting with antelopes over grass.

• When the bell rings, the students leave the classroom.

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B