Figurative Language Definitions

Metaphor

• Exaggeration

• Comparison with is or was

• Old saying: Raining cats and dogs

• Sound words

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.4.5B

Hyperbole

• Sound words

• Repeating first letters

• Old saying: Raining cats and dogs

• Extreme Exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Idiom

• Old Saying: Raining cats and dogs

• Comparison using like or as

• Giving Human traits

• Sound words

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

Alliteration

• Repeating first letters: Big bears bake together

• Sound words

• Giving human traits

• Comparison with is or was

Simile

• Comparison using like or as

• An old sayig

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

What is an example of a simile?

• His hand was as cold as ice.

• The teacher is a mother hen.

• My cat weighs a ton.

• The sun smiled down at me.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

What is an example of a metaphor?

• My brother is a couch potato.

• It was raining cats and dogs.

• The bees buzzed.

• He was as fast as a tiger.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.RL.4.4

What does hyperbole mean?

• It compares two things using like or as.

• As comparison of two things not using like or as.

• A deliberate exaggeration used to emphasize a point.

• Words that imitate sounds.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4A

CCSS.L.4.6

What doe onomatopoeia mean?

• The repeating of the same beginning sound in a group of words.

• Words that imitate real sounds.

• A saying whose meaning can't be understood from the individual words in it.

• Giving human qualities to something that is not human.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4A

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

What does alliteration mean?

• A deliberate exaggeration is used to emphasize a point.

• The repeating of the same beginning sound in a group of words.

• Words that imitate real sounds.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4