Metaphors, Similes, Personification

The cow looks like a cookie.

This is an example of:

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Metaphors, Similes, and Personification are examples of:

• Learning Terms

• Descriptive Words

• Figurative Language

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Personification is when you

• give something human traits

• when you describe another person

• give a human traits of an object

• Turn a banana into a person using the Personifier 3 thousand

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CCSS.L.6.5A

An example of Personification is:

The leaves...

• smell funny

• blew in the wind

• danced in the wind

• are leaves

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Its raining cats and dogs!

is

• a metaphor

• a simile

• an example of animalification

• an example of hyperbole

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

"It was as light as a cloud"

is an example of

• a smiley

• a metaphor

• a simile

• an idiom

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A comparison that uses like or as

• hyperbole

• dynamic characters

• a metaphor

• a simile

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

The wind whistled in my ear.

is an example of

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Peopleification

• Humanifying

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

A comparison between two things without like or as.

• Metaphor

• Comparification

• Simile

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

How do you know a sentence is a simile?

When it uses the word(s)...

• the and a

• about or around

• like or as

• for

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3