Figurative Language Types

What is personification?

• An exaggeration

• A type of transportation

• The act of giving human traits, qualities, or actions to objects, concepts or animals.

• The name of a Super Hero

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What is an example of Personification?

• "The Stars are smiling and winking at us"

• "Melvin is very alert"

• "I was so tired, I slept for a month"

• "I do not like Pickles"

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CCSS.L.6.5A

What is a simile?

• Comparing two unlike things without using like or as.

• Comparing two things in a text.

• A type of metaphor where two things are compared using the word "like or as"

• None of the Above

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Which is an example of a simile?

• "Port Allen Middle School is the Best!"

• "I love to go camping"

• "Ricky is as happy as a clam!"

• None of the Above

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What is the definition of a metaphor?

• A figure of speech that says the opposite.

• A figure of speech that says one thing is the same as something else.

• A sound effect.

• None of the Above

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"Life is a Journey" is an example of what?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• None of the Above

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Talking animals is an example of what type of figurative language?

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

• Personification

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

You have a smile that lights up the room is an example of what type of figurative language

• hyperbole

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"You are the thunder, and I am the lightning," is an example of which type of figurative language?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• None of the Above

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Which type of figurative language uses like or as to compare two unlike things?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• None of the Above

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