8th Grade Figurative Language Review

What is alliteration

• Comparison using like or as
• Giving human characteristics to nonliving or nonhuman things
• The repetition of the same letter or sound of closely connected words
• Extreme exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What are similes?

• Comparison using like or as
• Giving human characteristics to nonliving or nonhuman things
• The repetition of the same letter or sound of closely connected words
• Comparison NOT using like or as

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is personification?

• Comparison using like or as
• Giving human characteristics to nonliving or nonhuman things
• The repetition of the same letter or sound of closely connected words
• Comparison NOT using like or as

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

What are metaphors?

• Comparison using like or as
• Extreme exaggeration
• The repetition of the same letter or sound of closely connected words
• Comparison NOT using like or as

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

What are hyperboles?

• The repetition of the same letter or sound of closely connected words
• Extreme exaggeration
• An expression whose meaning is different from its actual words
• Conjoining contradictory terms

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is an oxymoron?

• The repetition of the same letter or sound of closely connected words
• Extreme exaggeration
• An expression whose meaning is different from its actual words
• Conjoining contradictory terms

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

What is an idiom?

• The repetition of the same letter or sound of closely connected words
• Extreme exaggeration
• An expression whose meaning is different from its actual words
• Conjoining contradictory terms

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

What is an onomatopoeia?

• Extreme exaggeration
• A word that imitates the sound it represents.
• Comparison using like or as.
• Conjoining contradictory terms

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The clouds were as soft as cotton.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

My new cell phone cost an arm and a leg.

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A