Allusions and Figurative Language

references or hints made to people, place, things, or events from the Bible or mythology. 

• Biblical allusion

• mythological allusion

• literary allusion

• both A & B

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

an extended simile or metaphor that shows how two things are similar in two or      more ways.

• allusion

• analogy

• alliteration

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

includes figures of speech such as metaphors, simile, and allusions

• syntax 

• details 

• imagery 

• figurative language 

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What type of figurative language is used here:  How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle 

• metaphor

• simile

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What type of figurative language is used: To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.

• internal rhyme

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

By using words that sound like the noises that the bells make, the poet is using _______________.

• onomatopoeia
  Onomatopoeia
  

• repetition

• similes

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Language not meant to be taken literally but layered with meaning through the use of literary devices is known as

• Sensory language

• Figurative language

• Fiction

• Sarcasm

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

The world is a stage

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Giving human characteristics to something non-human is known as

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

The writer or speaker refers directly or indirectly to a person, event, or literature without explanation

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Dialogue

• Inference

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4