Figurative Language 7th Grade

What is a metaphor?

• A word that makes the sound it represents

• A comparison of two unrelated things

• An exaggerated statement

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

My monkey is making me mighty mad.

• simile
• onomatopoeia
• metaphor
• alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The clock on the wall laughed at me as I tried to finish my test before class ended.

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.5A

The drive to Disney World will last forever if I have to be stuck in the backseat with my pesky little sister. 

• personification
• hyperbole
• simile
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A comparison between 2 unlike things using 'like' or 'as'

• personification
• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

BAM!  The door shut behind me. 

• onomatopoeia
• personification
• simile
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

I was so tired after school, I slept for a month! 

• hyperbole
• simile
• alliteration
• metaphor

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Don't be a stick in the mud! 

• idiom
• simile
• onomatopoeia
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

What is the repetition of the same letter at the beginning of a word

• simile

• personification

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

When something that is not human is given human qualities

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A