Figurative Speech

An extreme exaggeration

• simile

• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• hyperbole

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.5

a direct comparison of two unlike things, not using like or as

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia
• metaphor

• simile
• personification

Tags

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.5

a common saying with a meaning completely different than what the words literally means - an old saying or phrase that people use

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• simile
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.5

a comparison of two unlike things, using the words 'like' or 'as'

• simile

• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• metaphor
• personification

Tags

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.5

when the same sounds are used at the beginning of several words in a sentence - 'all the sounds are the same'

• simile

• onomatopoeia
• alliteration

• metaphor
• personification

Tags

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.5

a word that represents a sound - the word sounds like the sound it makes

• simile

• alliteration
• onomatopoeia

• metaphor
• personification

Tags

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.5

when a non-human object is given human qualities or emotions

• simile

• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• personification

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.5

What is the definition of context?

• a word or phrase not meant to be taken literally, but rather used for effect

• expressions used for descriptive effect that are not literally true but that express some truth beyond the literal level

• the events, situations, or language that surround a particular word, phrase or piece of text that help explain its meaning

Tags

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.5

What is the definition of oxymoron?

• a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

• a word or phrase not meant to be taken literally, but rather used for effect

• the use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning

Tags

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.5

I bolted out the door like a horse leaving the gate for a race.

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D