Match the word to its definition.

• direct, explicit comparison of one thing to another, usually using like or as

• alliteration

• language that makes it point by self-consciously downplaying its real emphasis

• simile

• comparing two unlike things without using like or as

• Hyperbole

• exaggerated language

• understatement

• the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words near each other

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Figurative language is not _____; it uses figures of speech in order to create meaning.

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

"The wind howls in disbelief"

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• allusion

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CCSS.L.6.5A

"O Rose, thou art sick!" is an example of

• apostrophe

• allusion

• connotation

• understatement

Answer explanation

apostrophe is addressing a non-living entity

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"In the howling storm" is an example of

• apostrophe

• allusion

• personification

• understatement

Answer explanation

apostrophe is addressing a non-living entity

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CCSS.L.6.5A

______ is a word's direct and literal meaning (the dictionary definition), as opposed to its connotation.

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Label the figurative language on the poem.

a

b

c

d

e

metaphor

allusion

alliteration (letter "d"

understatement

alliteration (letter "h")

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Read this excerpt from Billy Collin's poem "Divorce"

Divorce

Once, two spoons in bed,

now tined forks

"two spoons in bed" is

• a simile

• a metaphor

• personification

• irony

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Read this excerpt from Billy Collin's poem "Divorce"

Divorce

Once, two spoons in bed,

now tined forks

"now tined forks" is

• a simile

• a metaphor

• personification

• irony

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

When Romeo says, "Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!"

"Brawling love" and "Loving hate" are examples of

• allusions

• metaphors

• similes

• oxymoron

Answer explanation

An oxymoron is a self-contradicting word or group of words.

Example: Bittersweet

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A