Figurative Language in Holiday Movies

"This fog's as thick as peanut butter!"

--Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• pun

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

How can you say someone is great who's never had his picture on bubblegum cards?

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• rhetorical question

"Now you go home and write 'I am very sorry for what I did to Frost' a hundred zillion times."

-Frosty the Snowman

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron

• imagery

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"Their mouths will hang open a minute or two, then the Whos down in Whoville will all cry, 'Boo Hoo.'"

-How the Grinch Stole Christmas

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Personification

• Idiom

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CCSS.L.6.5A

What type?

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Simile

• I don't know

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Idiom

• 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

Rudolph's nose is a spotlight on a stormy night!

• alliteration

• idiom

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Idiom

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D