MCA Reading Test-Figurative Language

What is a simile?

• A comparison using like or as

• Giving human characteristics to a non-living thing

• Words that imitate sounds

• A comparison using was or is

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What do we call words that imitate sounds? (like "bang", "zip", or "crash")

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• simile

• alliteration

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is alliteration?

• comparing things using like or as

• repeating the first sound many times in a sentence

• an exaggeration

• a phrase that doesn't mean what it says

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is a phrase that means something other than what is actually said (like couch potato)

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

What is a hyperbole?

• Something that does not mean what the words describe.

• An exaggeration

• A comparison using was or is

• A word that describes a sound

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

simile or metaphor: "He is a night owl because he stays up late."

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The cupcake yelled, "Don't eat me!" as Mr. Carpenter sunk in his teeth.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What does this simile mean? "My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores."

• Her hair is red

• She talks really loudly

• She gets really angry

• She spits when she talks

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CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

"Out of the blue, a time machine appeared in my living room,"

• Out of the blue is a simile

• Out of the blue is an idiom

• Out of the blue is personification

• Out of the blue is hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"Quick as a bunny" is an example of...

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3