GT Unit 1 Vocab & Figurative Language Practice

A simile is

• when two unlike things are compared without using like or as

• when two unlike things are compared with like or as

• an extreme exaggeration

• when two opposite things are combined to make a new meaning

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a metaphor?

• when two unlike things are compared without using like or as

• when two unlike things are compared with like or as

• an extreme exaggeration

• when two opposite things are combined to make a new meaning

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is hyperbole?

• when two unlike things are compared without using like or as

• when two unlike things are compared with like or as

• an extreme exaggeration

• when two opposite things are combined to make a new meaning

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is an oxymoron?

• when two unlike things are compared without using like or as

• when two unlike things are compared with like or as

• an extreme exaggeration

• when two opposite things are combined to make a new meaning

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

What is the definition of a Personification?

• A word or phrase that is used to make a comparison between two people, things, animals, or places.
• A figure of speech that compares two things or persons which are not similar. A phrase that begins with "as" or "like."
• A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton.
• When you give human qualities to an object or animal.

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CCSS.L.6.5A

Directions: Complete the sentence so that it uses personification.

The washing machine _________________ when Sandra overloaded the laundry.

• Broke

• Complained

• Stopped

• Worked

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CCSS.L.6.5A

The cold snowflakes kissed our cheeks.

• Personification

• Idiom

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is alliteration?

• giving human traits to objects or ideas

• a phrase that means something else than what it says

• repeating the same initial sound in several words

• a contradictory phrase

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Identify the example of alliteration:

• The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew.

• The cat ran up the tree.

• She sells seashells by the seashore.

• The sun shone on the sea.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Hyperbole is defined as...

• A comparison using a verb

• Descriptive words using five senses

• A big exaggeration that can't really happen

• A figure of speech that cannot be interpreted literally

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A