Figurative Language

Match the following forms of figurative language to the appropriate characteristic.

• Purposeful exaggeration

• OXYMORON

• Uses the words "like" or "as"

• ALLITERATION

• Already-established phrases

• SIMILE

• A phrase that contradicts itself

• HYPERBOLE

• Repeating the beginning letter or sound

• IDIOM

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Which form of figurative language compares two different things that have a shared trait or characteristic?

(a)  

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

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

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

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

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Figure of Speech

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(b) Sound Device

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Idiom

• Consonance

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Assonance

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

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

(a)   ​ is the kind of figure of speech that compares two things using the words "like" or "as". A comparison of two different things without using "like" or "as" is known as a ​ ​ (b)   .

• SIMILE
• METAPHOR
• PERSONIFICATION
• ONOMATOPOEIA
• OXYMORON
• ASSONANCE
• METONYMY

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

The repetition of the same CONSONANT sound in closely connected words is called:

(a)  

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Identify the figure of speech used in this sentence: "The early bird catches the worm."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D