Figurative Language Strategies

1) The following sentence is an example of:

The sun was gone but he had left his footprints in the sky.

• imagery

• metaphor

• personification

• symbol

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

2) "It was the time for sitting on porches. … It was the time to hear things and talk..."

• allusion

• repetition

• imagery

• anecdote

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

3) These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless…

• hyperbole

• motif

• imagery

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

4) "...they's a lost ball in de high grass"

• simile

• personification

• idiom

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

"Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring"

• simile

• metaphor

• irony

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

"Dat's just de same as me 'cause mah tongue is in mah friend's mouf"

• allusion

• repetition

• idiom

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

She [Janie] was "...beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her."

• alliteration

• symbol

• irony

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The phrases "bursting buds" and "springtime sprinkled" are examples of:

• anecdote

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which of the following correctly identifies a symbol?

• "Words walking without masters; walking altogether like harmony in a song"

• "Ah'm hard of understanding at times"

• "Mrs. Sumpkins snorted violently and sucked her teeth"

• "It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road...They sat in judgment"

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Which of the following is the best example of specific diction?

• "laughed"

• "monstropolous"

• "beginning"

• "darkness"

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D