Figurative Language

What is a simile?

• Comparing two unlike objects using like or as.

• Comparing two unlike objects saying one is another.

• Giving human qualities to a nonhuman object.

• Same beginning letter sounds.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a metaphor

• when the outcome is opposite of what is expected.

• sound words

• comparing two unlike things using like or as.

• Comparing two unlike things saying one is another.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is personification

• Same beginning letter sounds.

• Giving a human quality to a nonhuman object

• Comparing two unlike things using like or as.

• When the audience knows something the characters do not.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What is alliteration?

• Same beginning letter sounds.

• Sound words

• When the audience knows something the characters do not.

• A well- known phrase that should not be taken literally.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is an onomatopoeia?

• Comparing two unlike objects using like or as.

• Sound words.

• When the outcome is opposite of what is expected.

• same beginning letter sounds.

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?

• Comparing two things using like or as.

• When the outcome is opposite of what is expected.

• A phrase that should not be taken literally.

• Comparing two things saying one is another.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

What is a hyperbole?

• Using extreme exaggeration

• Giving a human characteristic to a nonhuman object.

• Making reference to a historical character, work of art, text, etc.

• When someone says something, but means the opposite.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is an allusion?

• A well-known phrase that should not be taken literally.

• When the outcome is opposite of what is expected.

• extreme exaggeration.

• making reference to a historical character, text, art work, etc.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is Dramatic Irony?

• When the audience knows something, but the characters do not.

• When someone says something, but means the opposite.

• When the outcome is opposite of what is expected.

• Giving human like characteristics to a non-human object.

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

What is situational irony?

• When the audience knows something, but the characters do not.

• When someone says something, but means the opposite.

• When the outcome is opposite of what is expected.

• Extreme exaggeration.

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A