Figurative Languages

The wind _____________ through the trees. (personification)

• whispered

• winked

• winded

• willowed

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CCSS.L.6.5A

The CEO was really a wolf in sheep’s _______________. (idiom)

• clothing

• cashmere

• cotton shirt

• dress

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

This uses extreme exaggeration to emphasize a point.

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• oxymoron

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A figurative language that uses statements that contradicts itself.

• idiom

• irony

• paradox

• oxymoron

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

What figurative language compares two unlike things but does NOT use words like, as, or than?

• Simile

• Idiom

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Choose the figurative language used in the sentence.

" You snore louder than the freight train! "

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What figurative language describes a sound or is a sound effect?

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What figurative language gives human qualities to animals or objects?

• Allusion

• Simile

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.6.5A

What figurative language uses phrases that are non-literal, and have a deeper meaning than it is shown?

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What figurative language uses a statement that refers to something indirectly?

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Personification

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4