Figure of speech

Idioms, metaphors, and similes are examples of...

• FIgurative language

• Literal

  language

• Both figurative and literal language

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison using "like" or "as"
• A comparison without using "like" or "as"
• A figure of speech in which the word imitates it's meaning.
• An extreme exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a simile?

• a phrase that means something else than what it says

• comparing two things by saying one is the other

• comparing two different things by using "like" or "as"

• a word that resembles the sound it represents

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is alliteration?

• giving human traits to objects or ideas

• a phrase that means something else than what it says

• connected or closely connected words that start with the same sound.

• a contradictory phrase

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which is an example of a simile?

• His room was a hurricane of a mess.
• His room looked as if a hurricane came  through.
• A hurricane! AHHH!
• The hurricane screamed through the town. 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"As straight as an arrow" is an example of what?

• simile
• alliteration
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"The city was a jungle." is an example of what type of figurative language?

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What type of figurative language is shown?
Pansy pranced playfully around the playground.

• idiom

• alliteration
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What type of figurative language is shown?
Tracy was really feeling down in the dumps.

• simile

• idiom
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

What two things are being compared in the sentence " Sariyah is as cute as a puppy." ?

• cute and the puppy

• the sentence isnt comparing anything

• Sariyah and the puppy

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D