Poetry Figurative Language Examples

Old Mr. Johnson has been teaching here since the Stone Age.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Personification

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Which of the following is NOT an example of an idiom?

• I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
• It is really hot outside.
• That new car cost an arm and a leg.
• The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

What is a unit of language into which a poem or play is divided called?

• stanza
• paragraph
• act
• line

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

What is personification?

• comparing two things using like or as
• giving human traits to objects or ideas
• a dramatic exaggeration
• a word that resemebles the sound it represents

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CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

What is alliteration?

• giving human traits to objects or ideas
• a phrase that means something else than what it says
• repeating the same initial sound in neighboring words
• a contradictory phrase

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is an onomatopoeia?

• a word that resembles the sound it makes
• comparing two things using like or as
• a dramatic exaggeration
• comparing two things by saying one is the other

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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 type of figurative language is shown?
Her long hair is an ocean of waves.

• personification
• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole
• metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What type of figurative language is shown?
Her eyes were as blue as the ocean.

• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What type of figurative language is shown?
Darcy daringly dove down the deep ditch.

• alliteration
• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia
• 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

What is a simile?

• a phrase that means something else than what it says
• comparing two things by saying one is the other
• comparing two things by using like or as
• a word that resembles the sound it represents

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3