Literary Devices and Figurative Speech

Which of the following is a simile?

• My dog ran faster than a cheetah. 
• My dog is as fast as a cheetah. 
• My dog leaped when he heard a boom!
• My dog ran fast. 

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which of the following is a metaphor? 

• Time goes as fast as lightening. 
• Time goes too fast like a thief
• Time is a thief. 
• Time flies. 

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

True or false: figurative language should be interpreted literally. 

• True
• False

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

My heart pounded on my chest. 

• Personification
• Metaphor
• Onomatopoeia
• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A hyperbole...

• exaggerates
• lies
• compares
• identifies 

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"I would travel a thousand miles to see you tonight." - Vanessa Carlton
This is an example of...

• Personification
• Metaphor
• Assonance
• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Seven sea shells down by the sea shore is an example of...

• Alliteration
• Assonance 

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"Try to light the fire" is an example of...

• Alliteration 
• Assonance

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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 rose in Tupac's poem was a metaphor for...

• Going against the norm and individualism
• Growing flowers in a weird place
• Nothing
• Running away from problems

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

If I personify something, then I give it what? 

• non-human qualities
• characteristics
• dynamic character ability
• Human qualities

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CCSS.L.6.5A