Figurative Language Challenge

This book cover is an example of what two types of figurative language?

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What happens to a dream deferred?

      Does it dry up

      like a raisin in the sun?

      Or fester like a sore—

      And then run?

      Does it stink like rotten meat?

      Or crust and sugar over—

      like a syrupy sweet?

What form of figurative language is found in Lines 3, 4, and 6.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Is this sentence an example of literal or figurative language?

The wind blew the leaves.

• Literal

• Figurative

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Make this simile a metaphor.

She is like a red, red rose.

(a)  

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

This book cover is an example of what kind of figurative language?

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What form of figurative language is in this sentence from

Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart:

"I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. "

.

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Figurative language helps the reader....

Pick all that applies.

• Visualize

• Make Connections

• Understand the message or meaning the author is trying to convey.

• Paint pictures

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What is the definition of a simile?

(a)  

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Pick the two forms of figurative language that deal with sounds.

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What form of figurative language is in the first stanza of Emily Dickinson's poem?

Because I could not stop for Death –

He kindly stopped for me –

The Carriage held but just Ourselves –

And Immortality.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4