Figurative Language

What is a simile?

• A comparison between two things using "like" or "as'

• A comparison between two things without using "like" or "as"

• An exaggeration

• A comparison between two things using "or" and "like"

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison between two things using "like" or "as"

• A comparison between two things without using "like" or "as"

• An exaggeration

• A comparison using "or" and "like"

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is personification?

• An exaggeration

• A comparison without using "like" or "as"

• When an author gives an object or animal human-like qualities

• When an author compares a human to an animal

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CCSS.L.6.5A

What is a hyperbole?

• When an author gives human like qualities to an animal or object

• When an author uses the five senses to describe something

• When an author uses an exaggeration

• A reference to a famous person, place, event, or pop culture

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is an allusion?

• A reference to a famous person, place, event, or pop culture

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• An exaggeration

• When two words begin with the same sound

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is an alliteration?

• A comparison without using "like" or "as"

• When two or more words end with the same sound

• A reference to a person, place, event, or pop culture

• When two or more words begin with the same sound

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is onomatopoeia?

• An expression that does not literally mean what it says

• A word that mimics the sound of the noise for what is being described

• Giving an object or animal human-like qualities

• Using the 5 senses to paint a picture in the readers mind

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is an idiom?

• An exaggeration

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• An expression that does not literally mean what it says

• A word that mimics the sound of the noise for what is being described

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Identify the correct type of figurative language in the sentence below:

Tom is as quiet as a mouse

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Identify the correct type of figurative language in the sentence below:

Elizabeth swam like a fish in the ocean this summer

• Omomatopoeia

• Simile

• Personification

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D