Simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole

Who is your FAVORITE?

• Ms. Anzalone and Ms. Teplansky

• Mr. Gates

• Ms. Benzinger

• Ms. Johnson

What is personification?

• giving an inanimate object human-like characteristics.

• a way to describe people

• exaggeration to make a point

• when a person is pretending

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What is a simile?

• when something is fake

• a comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• when two words sound exactly the same

• a symbol

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a metaphor?

• when you think too hard

• a type of constellation

• a comparison of two unlike things

• exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Create a METAPHOR!

What is a hyperbole?

• a coffee drink from Starbucks

• use of exaggeration to emphasize a point

• giving an inanimate object human-like characteristics

• a very fast speed

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The wind howled in the night.

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

You were as brave as a lion.

• simile

• metaphor

• personifiaction

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What poetic device is being used:

The students can't wait to get to English class and look like a group of horses racing going down the hall.

I am so hungry I could eat a horse.

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A