REVIEW: Figurative Language

What is Onomatopoeia?

• Sound Effect Words

• Comparing two things using "like" or "as"

• Exaggeration used for emphasis

• A phrase that doesn't literally mean what it says

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is an idiom?

• Sound Effect Words

• Comparing two things using "like" or "as"

• Exaggeration used for emphasis

• A phrase that doesn't literally mean what it says

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What is a simile?

• Sound Effect Words

• Comparing two things using "like" or "as"

• Exaggeration used for emphasis

• A phrase that doesn't literally mean what it says

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is hyperbole?

• Sound Effect Words

• Comparing two things using "like" or "as"

• Exaggeration used for emphasis

• A phrase that doesn't literally mean what it says

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is Personification?

• Repetition of the same letter or sound

• Comparing two things by saying one thing IS the other

• Giving human characteristics to a non-human

• Sound effect words

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

What is Alliteration?

• Repetition of the same letter or sound

• Comparing two things by saying one thing IS the other

• Giving human characteristics to a non-human

• Sound effect words

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is Metaphor?

• Repetition of the same letter or sound

• Comparing two things by saying one thing IS the other

• Giving human characteristics to a non-human

• Sound effect words

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is this an example of?

The clock never sleeps.

It runs slow sometimes,

but it has arms that are

constantly moving.

• Simile

• Personification

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What are these examples of?

The sky was as blue as the sea.

The kids were as playful as kittens.

Watching the show was like watching grass grow.

• Simile

• Personification

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What are these examples of?

Better late than never.

Break a leg!

Beat around the bush.

• Simile

• Personification

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B