Figurative Language and Sound Devices

The quote from the popular Owl City song, "You would not believe your eyes if ten million fireflies lit up the world as I fell asleep," is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"You are the thunder, and I am the lightning," is an example of which type of figurative language?

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Chliche

• Personification

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CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

"I am as quick as a fox". This is an example of what figurative language?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• assonance

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The snowballs were bullets, punching me in the chest, is an example of...

• A hyperbole/personification
• A metaphor/personification
• A simile/metaphor
• Personification/Onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is personification

• Giving human qualities to a human
• Giving non living qualities to living things
• Comparing something to a nonliving thing.
• Giving human qualities to a non human things

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CCSS.L.6.5A

What is a hyperbole?

• An exaggerated statement not to be taken literally. 
• Telling the truth
• Comparing a rock to a island
• Break a leg

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A brief reference to a famous historical figure or event, like from a movie or a book. 

• Alliteration 
• Hyperbole 
• Assonance 
• Allusion

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Using the same letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected words 

• Assonance
• Alliteration
• Metaphor
• Idiom 

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which of the following is not an example of an allusion?

• his wife was his Achille's heel

• he lies so much, I'm surprised his nose doesn't grow like Pinnochio's

• she transformed her backyard to look like the Garden of Eden.

• we'll miss him so much because he was the best dog ever.

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

What is a symbol?

• an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning

• using like or as to compare two things

• a political reference

• a historical reference

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5