figurative language

Giving human qualities to something non-human

• Metpahor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A comparison of who different things by stating that one thing is another

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Sound words

• Simile

• Onomatopeia

• Idiom

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What type of figurative language being used in the following sentence?

The students are as busy as bees as they worked to finish their final project for the school year.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The lillies in the field danced happily in the wind.

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What type of figurative language being used in the following sentence?

The heater yelled as it was turned on during the first winter of the year

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Repetition of beginning sounds in words

• Simile

• Onomatopeia

• Idiom

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

He is as busy as a bee.

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

When an author gives objects, concepts or animals human characteristics, emotions or abilities, that's personification.

Which of the following is an example of personification?

• The night sighed, and it seemed as if the evening sky was yawning.

• The rabbit leaped over the fallen branch and vanished into the woods.

• Oliver decided to indulge his friend’s fantasies and smiled warmly.

• I ran as swiftly as a deer across the lawn, eager to greet my brother.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

An allusion is a direct or indirect reference to something historical, literary, religious or mythical. Allusions can help people see unique connections between two ideas.

Read the following passage:

The stray cat stalked down the street. Her walk was proud--she barely flinched when a car on the corner backfired. She reached the end of the street and made one majestic leap to the top of an open trash can, where, with great dignity, she settled over a meal of broken bones, a back alley Cleopatra.

Which detail from the text contains an allusion?

• “She reached the end of the street and made one majestic leap...”

• “Her walk was proud...”

• “The stray cat stalked down the street.”

• “...she settled over a meal of broken bones, a back alley Cleopatra.”

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4