Figurative Language Practice

a comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as

• simile

• metaphor

• irony

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

an exaggeration that cannot possibly be true

• simile

• idiom

• hyperbole

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

giving human qualities to nonhuman things

• personification

• imagery

• hyperbole

• irony

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

an expression that means something totally different than the the literal interpretation of its words would suggest

• literal language

• idiom

• assonance

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

words with sounds that imitate the meaning of what they are describing, i.e. "boom" or "splash"

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

a comparison of two unlike things by saying that one thing IS another dissimilar object or thing

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is the definition of alliteration?

• a) A huge exaggeration

• b) Giving an animal human-like qualities

• c) The repetition of similar sounds at the beginning of words

• d) Two words that sound alike, but have different meanings

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"Don't pick the prickly pear by the paw."

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• metaphor

• pun

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"You know I'd walk a thousand miles if I could just see you tonight."

• metaphor

• idiom

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"We must be swift as the coursing river!"

• pun

• simile

• idiom

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3