Skills: Figurative Language, Connotation/Denotation, and Reasons

A figure of speech that uses the words like or as to compare two seemingly unlike things.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Analogy

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

a word or phrase not to be taken literally, but rather used for effect.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

the events, situations, or language that surround a particular word, phrase, or piece of text that help explain its meaning.

• Claim

• Analyze

• Denotation

• Context

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

a figure of speech in which an animal, an object, a force of nature, or an idea is given human form or qualities.

• personification
• analogy

• metaphor

• figurative language

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

expressions used for descriptive or rhetorical effect that are not literally true but express some truth beyond the literal level.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

a figure of speech that compares two seemingly unlike things but implies a comparison instead of stating it directly with the word like or as.

• analogy

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

an idea or feeling that a word suggests in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

to examine the parts of something in detail.

• infer

• analyze

• context

• denotation

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

the literal dictionary definition of a word.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

a hint in the surrounding text that can help a reader infer the meaning of an unfamiliar word, phrase, or description.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C