Figurative Language

"Life is a journey" is an example of what?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"I nearly died laughing" is an example of what?

• Metaphor

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"You are the thunder, and I am the lightning," is an example of which type of figurative language?

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Chliche

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

Define hyperbole.

• An overused phrase

• Its raining cats and dogs

• An over (excessive) exaggeration

• A comparison of two unlike things, using like or as

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Giving human characteristics to nonhuman object or animals is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.6.5A

He has been walking for days and days but he has actually been walking for only 5 minutes is an example of:

• Idiom

• Simile

• Cliche

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The flowers danced in the wind is an example of:

• Simile

• Personification

• Cliche

• Idiom

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

“I like to walk in the woods and see what Mother Nature is wearing.” This is an example of ________.

• hyperbole

• allusion

• personification

• idiom

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"Her eyes were like a deep ocean filled with endless mystery." This is an example of ____________________.

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification
• Structure

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"The eerie silence was shattered by her scream." This is an example of ___________________________. 

• Theme
• Plot
• Rhyme
• Imagery

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CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D