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Figurative Language Definition

Authored by Sarah Williams

English

6th Grade

CCSS covered

Figurative Language Definition
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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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