Figurative Language Comprehension Review

What is a hyperbole?

• comparing two things using like or as

• an extreme exaggeration

• giving human traits to objects or ideas

• words or phrases that are contradictory

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Match the definition with the term:
comparing two unlike things by using the words "like" or "as"

• idiom

• simile

• personification

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Match the definition with the term:
giving human traits to objects or ideas

• idiom

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Match the definition with the term:
a phrase that means something else than what it says

• idiom

• simile

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Match the definition with the term:
an exaggeration so dramatic, nobody will believe it

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What type of figurative language is shown?
Her long hair is an ocean of waves.

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What type of figurative language is shown?
She was so sad that all the tears she cried filled up a lake.

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What type of figurative language is shown?
Her eyes were as blue as the ocean.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What type of figurative language is shown?
The ocean waves danced in the moonlight.

• personification

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A comparison between 2 unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D