Figurative Language

The assignment was a breeze is an example of a(n)...

• Metaphor 
• Simile 
• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia 

This is a ...

• metaphor

• simile

• rhyme

• homophone

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

A metaphor...

• Compares 2 things using "like" or "as"

• Compares 2 things without using "like" or "as"

• Giving human characteristics to something non-human.

• Is word play or a joke

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

What does this represent?

• Alliteration
• Dialect
• personification
• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

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

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• irony

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Definition:  

when an author uses words or phrases in ways that may not be literal and makes the text interesting

• Figurative Language

• Literal Language

• Irony

• Hyberbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"The city was a jungle" is an example of what? This is an example of ...... 

• alliteration
• simile
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Definition: describes using 5 senses; helps you see a picture in your mind

• Imagery

• Idiom

• Repetition

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.W.11-12.3D

Definition: the repetition of the same vowel sounds inside of words that are close together

• assonance

• alliteration

• irony

• metaphor

Definition: the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby words

• assonance

• alliteration

• personification

• repetition