Hatchet Figurative Language

Sensory details are

• when the writer appeals to the reader through sight, hearing, touch, taste or smell.
• a type of figurative when a writer uses techniques not meant to be taken literally.
• sound effect words.
• when a non-human object is given human characteristics.

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A simile is

• a literary device where a word sounds like what it means.
• a comparison between two objects using like or as.
• Giving human characteristics to a non-human object.
• an extreme exaggeration.

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A hyperbole is

• a comparison between to unlike objects using like or as.
• An extreme exaggeration.
• Giving a non-human object human characteristics.
• using language that appeals to touch, smell, sight, taste, or hearing. 

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

Personification is

• An extreme exaggeration.
• a comparison of two unlike object using like or as.
• a word that is equal to a sound effect.
• when a non-human object is given human .characteristics

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

A metaphor is  

• a comparison of two unlike objects that uses the words like or as.
• a type of figurative language that makes a comparison that is NOT literal.
• an extreme exaggeration.
• a word is a sound effect.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

What is this an example of:
"Divorce.
Secrets.
No, not secrets so much as just the Secret.  What he knew and had not told anybody, what he knew about his mother that had caused the divorce, what he knew, what he knew - the Secret.
Divorce.
The Secret." (p.3)

• Repetition
• Personification
• Simile
• Onomatopoeia

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

What is this an example of:
"The drone and the sea of green trees that lay before the plane's nose..." (p.2)

• Personification
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Onomatopoeia

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

What is this an example of:
"... all the instruments in his face as the plan clawed for altitude..." (p.2)

• Simile
• Onomatopoeia
• Irony
• Personification

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

What is this an example of:
"The pilot's words were a hiss, barely audible." (p.10)

• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Onomatopoeia
• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is this an example of:
"And now a jolt took him like a hammerblow, so forcefully..." (p. 10)

• Repetition
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3