Figurative and Connotative Meanings

Decide which phrase has a negative connotative and which has a positive connotation.

She smirked at me VS. She smiled at me

• Negative, Positive

• Positive, Negative

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.L.8.5C

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is figurative language?

• The literal, dictionary definition of a word or phrase

• When a word has an emotion associated with it

• Using words or phrases that do not have their every day, literal meaning

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What is personification?

• Comparing two things, using like or as

• Extreme exaggeration

• Giving human characteristics to a nonhuman thing

• A word associated with the sound it makes

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

What is hyperbole?

• Using extreme exaggeration to get your point across

• Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things

• A literal meaning of a word

• Similar sounds at the beginning of words

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is a metaphor?

• Using extreme exaggeration

• Comparing two things, using like or as

• Comparing two things, NOT using like or as

• A positive meaning for a word

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is an idiom?

• The dictionary definition of a word

• The literal meaning of a word

• Rhyming words

• A common phrase that represents a non-literal meaning

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

While I was walking on the street, the car zoomed passed me. What type of figurative language does this sentence represent?

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The teacher gave us 100 hours of homework last night. What type of figurative language does this sentence represent?

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

His heart is as cold as the winter snow. What type of figurative language does this sentence represent?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The night time sky ate the last bit of sunlight that was in the sky. What type of figurative language does the sentence represent?

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A