Figurative Language
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6th - 8th Grade
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1.
MATCH QUESTION
2 mins • 5 pts
Match the following forms of figurative language to the appropriate characteristic.
A phrase that contradicts itself
ALLITERATION
Repeating the beginning letter or sound
OXYMORON
Already-established phrases
IDIOM
Purposeful exaggeration
SIMILE
Uses the words "like" or "as"
HYPERBOLE
Tags
CCSS.L.3.5A
CCSS.RL.3.4
2.
FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which form of figurative language compares two different things that have a shared trait or characteristic?
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5A
CCSS.L.5.5A
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Identify the figure of speech used in this sentence: "I looked Death in the eye and it stared right back."
Metaphor
Analogy
Idiom
Personification
Tags
CCSS.L.6.5A
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Identify the figure of speech used in this sentence: "The weather was terrible; it was raining cats and dogs outside!"
Idiom
Simile
Personification
Alliteration
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5B
CCSS.L.5.5B
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Identify the sound device used in this sentence: "Yesterday I saw a small ball that fell into the well."
Alliteration
Metonymy
Consonance
Assonance
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
CCSS.L.6.5
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
6.
CATEGORIZE QUESTION
3 mins • 10 pts
Groups:
(a) Figure of Speech
,
(b) Sound Device
Idiom
Consonance
Metaphor
Assonance
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Personification
Simile
Oxymoron
Tags
CCSS.L.6.6
CCSS.L.7.6
CCSS.W.6.2D
CCSS.W.7.2D
CCSS.W.8.2D
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Identify the figure of speech is used in this sentence: "There is always such sweet sorrow in witnessing each and every farewell function."
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Metaphor
Tags
CCSS.L.9-10.5A
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