Figurative Language in "Freedom Summer" and "The Harmonica"

What is a metaphor?

• ^{A comparison WITHOUT using like or as}

• A clue from the author about what will happen later in the story

• A comparison using the word "like" or "as"

• An extreme exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

Comparing two different things using the words like or as:

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Giving human traits to non-living things...

• metaphor

• simile

• imagery

• personification

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is a hyperbole?

• A comparison using "like" or "as".

• A statement that gives non-human objects human characteristics.

• An exaggerated statement that is not meant to be taken literally.

• an expressing whose meaning is different from the literal meaning.

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Read the excerpt from The Harmonica:

"Somewhere outside, a war was raging. But it was far away - a bad dream ..."

This is an example of ...

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Read the excerpt from The Harmonica:

"Somewhere outside, a war was raging. But it was far away - a bad dream ..."

What two things are being compared?

• The war and a bad dream

• the war and rage

• A bad dream and the outside

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Read the excerpt from The Harmonica:

"Somewhere outside, a war was raging. But it was far away - a bad dream ..."

The author most likely used this comparison to say ...

• The narrator thought the war would never touch him. It was scary, but not real for him - like a bad dream.

• The narrator knew the war was inevitable just like how you have a nightmare every single night.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Read this excerpt from The Harmonica:

"Like a length of kindling, in one stroke, they split our family."

This quote is an example of ...

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personifcation

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Read this excerpt from The Harmonica:

"Like a length of kindling, in one stroke, they split our family."

In this simile, the author is comparing ...

• A length of kindling to a stroke

• his family to a length of kindling

• his family to a split

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CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.RL.7.7

Read this excerpt from The Harmonica:

"Like a length of kindling, in one stroke, they split our family."

What is most likely the author's meaning?

• His family was burned up like a piece of firewood.

• His family was split apart like you split a log apart to make kindling for a fire.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4