Figurative Language Definitions + Examples
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9th - 12th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What uses figures of speech to build meaning beyond the literal?
Figurative language
Literal Language
Confusing Language
Intelligent Language
Tags
CCSS.L.3.5A
CCSS.RL.3.4
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is an indirect comparison that typically uses like or as?
Example: She is as happy as a cat riding a unicorn through space.
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5A
CCSS.L.5.5A
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is a direct comparison between two objects or concepts?
Example: Her long hair was a flowing golden river.
Metaphor
Imagery
Alliteration
Simile
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5A
CCSS.L.5.5A
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What gives human traits to something that is not human?
Example: My alarm clock yells at me every morning to get out of bed!
Personification
Allusion
Metaphor
Idiom
Tags
CCSS.L.6.5A
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What are words that resemble the sound they represent?
Example: The baseball whizzed past my ear straight into the catcher’s mitt for strike 3.
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Metaphor
Allusion
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
CCSS.L.6.5
CCSS.L.7.5
CCSS.L.8.5
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the repetition of the beginning consonant sound within a group of words?
Example: Kathy can’t cook chocolate chip cookies continuously, can she?
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Imagery
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
CCSS.L.6.5
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the use of language that engages the 5 senses: Hearing, Sight, Taste, Smell, and Touch?
Example: The scruffy black cat’s back arches and hair stands straight up when it encounters the chocolate brown snarling dog whose teeth look like little knives covered in butter.
Imagery
Simile
Personification
Allusion
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
CCSS.L.6.5
CCSS.L.7.5
CCSS.L.8.5
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