When your parents learn about your new plan to raise money, it's going to sink like the Titanic.

• pun

• allusion

• idiom

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Don't be a Scrooge!

• personification

• idiom

• pun

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

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

Allusion or Not an Allusion?

• Not an allsion

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

This house makes the White House look like a cottage.

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Suddenly all of the power went out. "Houston, we have a problem," my dad exclaimed.

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What does the word "ALLUSION" mean?

• hinting at events that will happen later in the story

• citing evidence word-for-word, with quotation marks and page numbers

• reference to a well-known person, place, thing, or idea of significance

• clearly stating the meaning of a word

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Which part of the sentence is an allusion: If they keep pushing me, I'm going to turn into the Hulk.

• If they keep

• keep pushing me

• I'm going to turn

• turn into the Hulk

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is the meaning of the allusion: My brother is a regular Einstein!

• My brother is a genius.

• My brother likes basketball.

• My brother has purple hair.

• My brother is named Einstein.

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is the meaning of the allusion: Ask me anything, I'm like Google!

• I know all of the answers.

• I need the internet to survive.

• I am rich.

• I hate bad weather.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4