Figure of Speech

A figure of speech that gives human qualities or attributes to non-human or inanimate object.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Synecdoche

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

It involves a deliberate exaggeration used for effect.

• Metonymy

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Paradox

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

It is a direct address to someone absent, long dead, or even to an inanimate objects or ideas.

• Apostrophe

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What kind of Figure of Speech is: Jose Rizal, where are the youth today?

• Litotes

• Apostrophe

• Paradox

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant

to be understood as literally true

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Figure of Speech

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

a figure of speech that makes a reference to a place, person, or event.

• alliteration

• allusion

• idiom

• noun

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally; commonly known as figures of speech is called

• simile

• figurative language

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What type of figure of speech are these demonstrating?

• symbolism

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A figure of speech is ___________.

• a familiar expression or saying

• a non-literal way of saying something.

• what the author literally means.

• something only writers use.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth means...

• He was born to a rich family

• He was born hungry

• He was born with teeth

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B