Figurative Language Review

Identify the paradox.

• The clouds drifted lazily in the sky.
• The person who wrote that book can’t write.
• The clown fish swam comically in the aquarium.
• I was confused by the lesson.

Identify the paradox. 

• She is an awfully good singer.
• The blank page stared back at me.
• It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.
• They danced in the moonlight. 

An oxymoron is:

• a figure of speech expressing comparison

• an exaggeration

• a play on words where two or more opposite words are joined together

• the same as hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Which word would create an oxymoron if you added it to the word "jumbo?"

• sweet

• shrimp

• secret

• silence

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Which word would create an oxymoron if you added it to the word "icy?"

• hot

• sweet

• shrimp

• grief

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

As slow as a sloth.

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Xavi runs like the wind.

• Simile

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Match the type of irony to its denfinition

a

b

c

Situational

Dramatic

Verbal

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Match the following

• The winner of the spelling bee fails their spelling quiz.

• Situational

• The reader knows that the wife survived the plane crash, but his wife thinks he didn't.

• Verbal

• Someone states during a rainstorm, " It's such a beautiful day!"

• Dramatic

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

• verbal irony
• situational irony
• dramatic irony
• none of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A