Language Test Prep

a comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• simile

• idiom

• allusion

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

a comparison of two unlike things that says one thing is another

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

an exaggeration that can't possibly be true

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

giving human qualities to inanimate objects

• personification

• alliteration

• simile

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

the repetition of the same initial consonant sound

• onomatopeia

• allusion

• alliteration

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

words that are the sound they make

• alliteration

• onomatopeia

• metaphor

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

an expression that doesn't literally mean what the words say

• pun

• simile

• alliteration

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

an expression used so often it loses its meaning

• cliche

• pun

• onomatopeia

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

a sarcastic expression that means the opposite of what is said

• cliche

• imagery

• paradox

• irony

a phrase whose words contradict each other woth opposite meanings

• pun

• oxymoron

• paradox

• cliche

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A