I-SHAMPOO | Figurative Language

What is an idiom?

• a comparison of objects or ideas using like or as

• a phrase not meant to be taken literally

• an exaggeration that can’t possibly be true

• a reference to something well-known.

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Fill in the blank: A simile is a comparison of objects or ideas using ______.

• like or as

• and

• but

• or

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is hyperbole?

• a reference to something well-known

• a comparison of unlike things that says one thing is another

• an exaggeration that can’t possibly be true

• giving human qualities to nonhuman things.

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Fill in the blank: An allusion is a reference to something ______.

• well-known.

• unknown.

• imaginary.

• fictional.

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is a metaphor?

• a comparison of unlike things that says one thing is another

• words whose sounds suggest their meaning

• contradictory terms appearing in conjunction

• a phrase not meant to be taken literally.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Fill in the blank: Personification is giving human qualities to ______.

• nonhuman things

• animals

• plants

• machines

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CCSS.L.6.5A

What is onomatopoeia?

• words whose sounds suggest their meaning

• a comparison of objects or ideas using like or as

• an exaggeration that can’t possibly be true

• a reference to something well-known

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Fill in the blank: An oxymoron is contradictory terms appearing in ______.

• conjunction.

• opposition.

• separation.

• isolation.

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

The 'I' in the I-SHAMPOO acronym stands for which term in figurative language?

• Imagery

• Irony

• Idiom

• Illusion

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

The 'S' in the I-SHAMPOO acronym stands for which term in figurative language?

• Simile

• Symbolism

• Synecdoche

• Satire

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6