Figurative Language/Poetry

Compares two things using like or as

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Compares two things without using like or as.

• simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Figure of speech that does not mean the literal meaning.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Figure of speech that gives nonliving things human abilities.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What type of figurative language uses repeating letters or tongue twisters?

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Idiom

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What type of figurative language uses exaggeration?

• alliteration

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What type of figurative language imitates sounds for effect?

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What type of figurative language is this example? How much wood can a wood chuck chuck, if a wood chuck could chuck wood?

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What type of figurative language is the following example? The football player was as big as a mountain.

• Idiom

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What type of figurative language is the following example? My heart is broken!

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5