Flash cards

Simile?

• A comparison of two unlike objects or ideas using like or is

• 
• A comparison of two unlike objects or ideas using like or as

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

metaphor?

• 
• Giving a object human trates

• A comparison of two unlike objects or ideas not using like or as

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

personifcation

• 
• words whose sounds imitate or suggest their meaning

• Giving human qualities to a non-living object

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

alliteration?

• 
• Extreme exaggeration

• Repeating beginning sounds of words

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

hyperble?

• 
• Extreme exaggeration

• When the story gets fast and hyper

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

idiom

• expression that means something very different from the literal meaning of the words

• the opposite

• 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Verbal irony

• A contrast between what is said or written and what is really meant

• 
• sarcasm

• When you say something but you mean the opposite

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Situational irony

• 
• A contrast between what is said or written and what is really meant

• When what happens is very different from what we expect would happen

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Dramatic irony

• 
• Occurs when the viewer/reader knows something that the characters themselves do not know

• A person place thing or an event that has its own meaning and also stands for something beyond itself as well

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

symbol/symbolism

• A person place thing or an event that has its own meaning and also stands for something beyond itself as well

• object/ idea

• 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5