StudySync - Unit 2 - Figurative Language Vocabulary

What is a figure of speech?

• A word or phrase not meant to be taken literally, but rather used for effect

• Expressions used for descriptive or rhetorical effect that are not literally true, but express some truth beyond the literal level

• The events, situations, or language that surround a particular word, phrase or piece of text that help explain its meaning

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What is a metaphor?

• A figure of speech that compares two seemingly unlike things but implies a comparison instead

• The events, situations, or language that surround a particular word, phrase or piece of text that help explain its meaning

• A figure of speech in which an animal, an object,  a force of nature, or an idea is given human form

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is personification?

• A word or phrase not meant to be taken literally, but rather used for effect

• A figure of speech that uses the word like or as to compare two seemingly unlike things

• A figure of speech in which an animal, an object,  a force of nature, or an idea is given human form

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What is context?

• Expressions used for descriptive or rhetorical effect that are not literally true, but express some truth beyond the literal level

• The events, situations, or language that surround a particular word, phrase or piece of text that help explain its meaning

• A figure of speech that uses the word like or as to compare two seemingly unlike things

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

What is a simile?

• A figure of speech that uses the word like or as to compare two seemingly unlike things

• The events, situations, or language that surround a particular word, phrase or piece of text that help explain its meaning

• A figure of speech in which an animal, an object,  a force of nature, or an idea is given human form

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is figurative language?

• A figure of speech that compares two seemingly unlike things but implies a comparison instead

• Expressions used for descriptive or rhetorical effect that are not literally true, but express some truth beyond the literal level

• A word or phrase not meant to be taken literally, but rather used for effect

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What type of figurative language is this?

The snow danced around in the wind.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• breezy

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What type of figurative language is this?

The band played as loud as a sonic boom.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• eardrums

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What type of figurative language is this?

My tennis shoes stuck out their tongues at my stinky feet after running the mile.

• simile

• metaphor

• personfication

• smelly

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What type of figurative language is this?

The race car zoomed past the finish line.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5