Figurative Language Practice

What is an idiom?

• A word or phrase that does not mean what it says

• A comparison using like or as

• An exaggeration

• Giving human characteristics to nonhuman beings

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

What does this idiom mean: That was a PIECE OF CAKE!

• Hard

• Easy

• Fun

• Messy

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Select the most suitable Idiom for the sentence below.

"Slow down, ________________________ . We need to think about this," replied grandma.

• straight from horse's mouth

• like a duck to water

• hold your horses

• for donkey years

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Select the most suitable Idiom for the sentence below.

Don't be rude to others. You won't like it when you get a ________________________.

• piece of cake

• taste of your own medicine

• fill the beans

• spill the beans

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

During brunch with his grandparents, Timmy was a real pig. 
What are the words in blue an example of?

• Simlie
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Simile or Metaphor:
My father is a bear in the morning.

• simile
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The playground was like a lake after the heavy rain.

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is personification?

• The same beginning sound repeated

• Giving human characteristics to non-human things

• A word that is a sound

• An exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Which is an example of personification?

• The sun smiled at us

• The sun is like a light bulb

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Hyperboles are phrases that

• compare two unlike things

• exaggerate

• give person-like qualities to animals and things

• have a different meaning than the words.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A