Figurative Language Notes

A phrase that compares two unlikely things using "like" or "as" is a ​ (a)  

• simile
• personification
• hyperbole
• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A phrase that compares two unlikely things

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

​ (a)   is a phrase that gives ​ (b)   qualities to nonhuman things

• Personification
• human
• animal
• onomatopoeia
• mechanical

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

An exaggeration that will never happen

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Verbal Ironly

• Speaker says one thing but means another

• an exaggeration that will never happen

• a play of words

• an illogical expression that means something else

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

A group of words that are self-contradicting is a(n) ​ (a)  

• oxymoron
• allusion
• pun
• idiom
• euphemism

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Match the following

• allusion

• A phrase that gives human qualities to nonhuman things

• euphemism

• An illogical expression that means something else

• personification

• Substitutes a word or a phrase to make the expression less offensive or lessen the harshness of its meaning

• Idiom

• reference to a person, place, thing, or idea that is of great significance

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Identify the figurative language being used in the following.

"A boiled egg for lunch is hard to beat."

• personification

• allusion

• pun

• euphemism

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

a play of words

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

​ (a)   are words that mean their sound

• onomatopoeia
• allusion
• simile
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4