Figurative Language Lesson

A hyperbole is an:

• exaggeration

• alliteration

• assonance

• juxtaposition

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.

• hyperbole

• assonance

• alliteration

• jusxtaposition

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Which sentence uses personification?

• The woman looked as if she were 1,000 years old.

• The fire hungrily ate the house.

• Where's the wicked cat?

• The tiger purred like my cat.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Making an inanimate object or animal act like a person

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Imagery

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A comparison using "like" or "as"

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Part of the figurative language in a literary work, whereby the author uses vivid images to describe a phenomenon

• Imagery

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

An extreme exaggeration

• Flashback

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of several words in a phrase.

• Alliteration

• Irony

• Rhyme

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The opposite of what is expected

• Flashback

• Idiom

• Irony

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

A comparison of two unlike things that suggests a similarity between the two items

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Imagery

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D