Figurative Language in CHTLOS (chs. 1-10)

REVIEW the different types of figurative language.

• a comparison using "like" or "as"

• Metaphor

• a comparison WITHOUT "like" or "as"

• Personification

• giving human traits to

  non-humans

• Hyperbole

• extreme exaggeration

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

Which type of figurative language is used in this excerpt: Some had spread quickly around the globe, spread like wildfire.

• Personification
• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

Identify the type of figurative language used in this excerpt: And that was when the pain came. It felt like two little bee stings up near my temples.

• Personification
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

Identify which type of figurative language is used in this excerpt: Mrs. Wilson was getting up there in years—and by getting up there I mean she’d probably shared a carriage with Benjamin Franklin at some point in her life.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

Which type of figurative language is used in this excerpt? They were a dark golden color. Like honey mixed with dirt.

• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Personification
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Which type of figurative language is used in this excerpt? It felt as if an army of creepy bugs were crawling all over me!

• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Personification
• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Which type of figurative language is found in this excerpt? She had thick tree-trunk legs…

• Metaphor
• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Identify the type of figurative language used in this excerpt: That’s when a fat gray feather burst

through the skin on my forearm like a zombie hand busting out of a grave.

• Metaphor
• Personification
• Simile
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Identify the type of figurative language used in this excerpt: My chest, smooth and hairless as a baby’s bottom a minute ago, was now covered in a forest of ugly little feathers.

• Hyperbole
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Which type of figurative language is used in this excerpt? …her reputation for

being a ruthless disciplinarian had spread through the student body like a bad case of pinkeye.

• Metaphor
• Personification
• Simile
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3