Understanding Metaphor Meanings

Which one is a metaphor

• Mom is that you
• He was a lion in the fight 
• The car is running so fast
• We had a ton of work

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

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Is this a  metaphor-
Time is a rushing river 

• True
• False 

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which one is a metaphor 

• chicken is my life 
• Your the best 
• Education is your passport to satisfying employment.
• Shake it off

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Whale hello there 

• True 
• False 

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CCSS.L.8.5A

What is  a definition

• A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance.
• the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
• a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words
• a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, 

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CCSS.W.4.2D

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What kind of is this Bob  was like a chicken with her head off

• simile
• metahor
• hyperbole
• idiom

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Which one is a metaphor

• his word were cotton candy
• the is a whole in the wall
• Hi Henry How you doing
• Have a happy day

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Is this a metaphor-- the truck flew down the empty highway

• True
• False 

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D