Figure of Speech Slide Presentation

A figure of speech is ___________.

• a familiar expression or saying
• a non-literal way of saying something.
• what the author literally means.
• something only writers use.

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What figure of speech is being asked? "The little stars, like little children, went first to bed." 

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Metonymy
• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What figure of speech is being asked? "He has the patience of Job."

• Allusion
• Irony
• Apostrophe
• Synecdoche

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What figure of speech is being asked? "Have you read Shakespeare? "

• Simile
• Irony
• Metonymy
• Metaphor

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

What figure of speech is being asked? "Hearty and hale was he, an oak that is covered with snow flakes."

• Allusion
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Simile

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What figure of speech is being asked? "Rizal! See the fair hope of the Fatherland."

• Personification
• metaphor
• Synecdoche
• Apostrophe

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What figure of speech is being asked? "The tumult reached the stars."

• Simile
• Personification
• Hyperbole
• I

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Meow, where's my milk, cried the cat is an example of?

• Litotes
• Simile
• Anticlimax
• Onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"How good of you to refuse to help us." is an example of?

• Hyperbole
• Synecdoche
• Irony
• Allusion

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CCSS.L.8.5A

My father brought me new wheels is an example of?

• Hyperbole
• Synecdoche
• Irony
• Allusion

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4