Figurative Language Definition
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6th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What is a direct comparison between two objects or concepts?
Example: Her long hair was a flowing golden river.
Metaphor
Imagery
Alliteration
Simile
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
CCSS.L.6.5
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What gives human traits to something that is not human?
Example: My alarm clock yells at me every morning to get out of bed!
Personification
Allusion
Metaphor
Idiom
Tags
CCSS.L.6.5A
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What is an extreme exaggeration? Example: Finally, on the millionth time he asked her out a date, she said yes!
Hyperbole
Personification
Idiom
Metaphor
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.5A
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What is an expression that means something more than the literal definition? Example: If you don’t zip your lips, I will zip them for you!
Idiom
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Imagery
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
CCSS.L.6.5
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What are words that resemble the sound they represent?
Example: The baseball whizzed past my ear straight into the catcher’s mitt for strike 3.
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Metaphor
Allusion
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
CCSS.L.6.5
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What is the use of language that engages the 5 senses: Hearing, Sight, Taste, Smell, and Touch? Example: The scruffy black cat’s back arches and hair stands straight up when it encounters the chocolate brown snarling dog whose teeth look like little knives covered in butter.
Imagery
Simile
Personification
Allusion
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
CCSS.L.6.5
CCSS.L.7.5
CCSS.L.8.5
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What are words or phrases that are not literal; that exaggerate or alter the usual meanings of the individual words?
figurative language
clauses
illusions
commands
Tags
CCSS.L.3.5A
CCSS.RL.3.4
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