Spooky Figurative Language

What is a simile?

• Comparison using like or as

• a direct comparison

• giving human traits to non-human things

• repetition of beginning sounds

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a metaphor?

• Comparison using like or as

• a direct comparison

• giving human traits to non-human things

• repetition of beginning sounds

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

• a direct comparison

• giving human traits to non-human things

• repetition of beginning sounds

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

What is alliteration?

• Comparison using like or as

• a direct comparison

• giving human traits to non-human things

• repetition of beginning sounds

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is a hyperbole?

• an extreme exaggeration

• a figure of speech known by a culture

• descriptive language that appeals to the 5 senses

• words that imitate sounds

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is an idiom?

• an extreme exaggeration

• a figure of speech known by a culture

• descriptive language that appeals to the 5 senses

• words that imitate sounds

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

What is imagery?

• an extreme exaggeration

• a figure of speech known by a culture

• descriptive language that appeals to the 5 senses

• words that imitate sounds

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is an onomatopoeia?

• an extreme exaggeration

• a figure of speech known by a culture

• descriptive language that appeals to the 5 senses

• words that imitate sounds

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"The pumpkin glowed like a lantern in the dark night."

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"The wind howled angrily as it tore through the trees."

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A