Figurative Language

a figure of speech that makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Which sentence is a metaphor?

• Her hair was like gold.

• The grease jumped out of the pan.

• Billy is an early bird.

• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which type of figurative language is the following sentence?

It is raining cats and dogs!

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Name the type of figurative language in the following sentence.

That dress is to die for!

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"Tom was as strong as an ox" is an example of a metaphor.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"She sang like an angel" is an example of personification.

• True

• False

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CCSS.L.6.5A

a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

• Irony

• Assonance

• Oxymoron

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A