Figurative Language

alliteration

• he same letter or sound at the beginning of words

• A comparison of 2 or more things without using the words "like or as". Most of the time the word "is" is used.

Answer explanation

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Metaphor

• A comparison of 2 or more things without using the words "like or as". Most of the time the word "is" is used.

• Using your five senses to create an image in your mind of what you’re reading.

Answer explanation

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Imagery

• Using your five senses to create an image in your mind of what you’re reading.

• An extreme exaggeration

Answer explanation

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

allusion

• an indirect reference to a famous person, place, event, or literary work
• characteristics of something living given to a non-living object

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

extended metaphor

• When a word, line, or phrase is repeated more than once.
• a figure of speech that compares two essentially unlike things at some length and in several ways

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

hyperbole

• a figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humorous effect
• words that sound like their meaning.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

onomatopoeia

• a joke that comes from a play on words
• words that sound like their meaning.

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

personification 

• characteristics of something living given to a non-living object
• words that sound like their meaning.

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

pun

• When a word, line, or phrase is repeated more than once.
• a joke that comes from a play on words

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

repetition

• a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using the word like or as
• When a word, line, or phrase is repeated more than once.

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4