Figurative Language

Giving human qualities to nonhuman things is called...

• idiom
• hyperbole
• personification
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

A comparison of two unlike things using the words 'like' or 'as' is called

• personification
• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

The repetition of the consonant sounds occurring at at the beginning of a word is called...

• idiom

• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• metaphor

Words that imitate sounds

• metaphor
• onomatopeia
• alliteration
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true

• hyperbole
• personification
• metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

A comparison of two unlike things without using "like" or "as"

• idiom

• personification
• metaphor
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Which of the following in an example of onomatopoeia?

• Boom!
• No!
• Yes!
• Go!

Which of the following is an example of personification?

• You are as a beautiful as a flower.
• The trees danced in the wind.
• I waited in line for 10 years!
• He is an encyclopedia of knowledge. 

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

The clock on the wall laughed at me as I tried to finish my test before class ended.

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

I was so tired after school, I slept for a month! 

• hyperbole
• simile
• alliteration
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4