Figurative Language 2

______ is a comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as."

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

_______ is a phrase that combines normally contradictory words.

• metaphor

• idiom

• oxymoron

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

______ is an expression that doesn't exactly mean what the words say.

• personification

• idiom

• alliteration

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

_____ gives human qualities to animals or objects

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

_____ is an exaggerated statement.

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

_____ is a word that sounds like what it describes.

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

_____ is the comparison of two things without using "like" or "as."

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

_____ is the repetition of the first sound or sounds in a group of words.

• personification

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

_____ is an example of onomatopoeia.

• being

• book

• bake

• buzz

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

_____ is an example of an oxymoron.

• terrible bad

• pickled pepper

• awfully good

• joy ride

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A