Figurative language unit test#1

Idiom

• Meaning different

• Meaning different from the meaning of its individual words

• A play on words

• Conjoining contradictory terms(as in'deafening silence')

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Personification definition

• A figure of speech

• A word that imitates the sound it represents

• A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes

• Repetition of initial constant sounds

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Simile

• Comparison using "like" or "as"

• Comparison using "live" or "as"

• A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way.

• Acompasion of too diffrent things that are simliar in some way

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

Hyperbole

• Extreme exageration

• Extreme exaggeration

• A word that imitates the sound it represents

• A play on words

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Pun

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Alliteration

• Repetition of initial constant sounds

• A word that imitates the sound it represents

• Minute as day: week

• A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Analogy

• Repetition of initial constant sounds

• A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way

• Minute as day: week

• Meaning diffrent

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Oxymoron

• Conjoining contradictory terms

• Conjoining

  contradictory terms(as in'deafening silence')

• A word that imitates the sound it represents

• Meaning different

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Allusion

• A reference

• A reference to a famous person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

• Repetition of consonant sounds

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4