Figurative Language Terms

What is a metaphor?

• A type of poem that tells a story

• A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"

• A figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as"

• Giving human qualities to non-human things

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What is a simile?

• A figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as"

• A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"

• A type of poem that tells a story

• Giving human qualities to non-human things

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What is personification?

• A type of poem that tells a story

• Giving human qualities to non-human things

• A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"

• A figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as"

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What is a hyperbole?

• A type of poem that tells a story

• A figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as"

• An exaggerated statement or claim not meant to be taken literally

• A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is an idiom?

• A figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as"

• A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"

• A phrase or expression that has a meaning different from the literal meaning

• A type of poem that tells a story

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What is onomatopoeia?

• A figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as"

• A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"

• A type of poem that tells a story

• A word from a sound associated with what is named

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CCSS.L.4.5

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CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is alliteration?

• A figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as"

• A type of poem that tells a story

• A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"

• The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected words

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CCSS.L.5.5

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CCSS.RL.7.4

What is imagery?

• A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"

• A type of poem that tells a story

• A figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as"

• Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work

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CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is repetition?

• The action of repeating something that has already been said or written

• A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"

• A type of poem that tells a story

• A figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as"

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Match the following

• Onomatopoeia

• Describing the word school as "a place to learn"

• Denotation

• She swims like Ariel

• Allusion

• The woodpecker sounded like popcorn popping

• Connotation

• Describing the word school as "prison" or "a safe place"

• Simile

• Boom; Buzz; Snap

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