Figurative Language Practice

What is a simile?

• A comparison of two unrelated things that uses like or as.

• A comparison of two unrelated things that DOES NOT use like or as.

• Giving human/lifelike characteristics to something that is not human and/or alive.

• An extreme exaggeration not meant to be taken literally.

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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 of two unrelated things that uses like or as.

• A comparison of two unrelated things that DOES NOT use like or as.

• Giving human/lifelike characteristics to something that is not human and/or alive.

• An extreme exaggeration not meant to be taken literally.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is personification?

• A comparison of two unrelated things that uses like or as.

• A comparison of two unrelated things that DOES NOT use like or as.

• Giving human/lifelike characteristics to something that is not human and/or alive.

• An extreme exaggeration not meant to be taken literally.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

How would allusion be defined?

• a reference to a famous person, place, or event

• words that involve one of the five senses

• two lines working as a unit

• a form or wordplay with similar sounding sounds

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is hyperbole?

• A comparison of two unrelated things that uses like or as.

• A comparison of two unrelated things that DOES NOT use like or as.

• Giving human/lifelike characteristics to something that is not human and/or alive.

• An extreme exaggeration not meant to be taken literally.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is onomatopoeia?

• Words that imitate natural sounds.

• A set expression or phrase that holds meaning in particular cultures or countries, but may mean nothing to outsiders.

• A figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined in order to create an effect.

• A situation that is strange or funny because things happen in a way that is opposite of what you expect.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is irony?

• Words that imitate natural sounds.

• A set expression or phrase that holds meaning in particular cultures or countries, but may mean nothing to outsiders.

• A figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined in order to create an effect.

• A situation that is strange or funny because things happen in a way that is opposite of what you expect.

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Reading The Great Gatsby was like trying to run through mud.

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The moon looked down on all the peaceful, sleeping people

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Iron Man broke down the wall with a crash!

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Verbal Irony

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5