Identifying Figurative Language

"Life is a Journey" is an example of what?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• None of the Above

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What human quality is being personified in the following sentence?

The old tree waited patiently for spring to return again.

• old

• waited paitently

• return

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CCSS.L.6.5A

Read the following sentence and decide if it using an example of hyperbole.

It took me a hundred years to do my homework.

• Hyperbole

• Not Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Choose the answer that best matches the meaning of the following idiom:

The ball is now in your court.

• You are dribbling a basketball

• It is your turn to make a decision

• You are a knight in the King's court

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Susan suddenly stretched slowly.

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Her blonde hair shined like the sun.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Meow!

• Hypebole

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Simie

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The angry, hot sun beamed down on us, beating us with its rays.

• Personification

• Oxymoron

• Alliteration

• Understatement

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CCSS.L.6.5A

Jumbo shrimp

• simile

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

"Buzz - says the great buzzing bee."

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5