Simile, Metaphor, or Personification

What is this is an example of: The clock on the wall laughed at me as I tried to finish my test before class ended.

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

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.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

Check all responses that ARE similes.

• Watching this movie is like watching grass grow.

• Those kids are fighting like cats and dogs.

• I like to eat steak and potatoes.

• He should have threw it away as he walked by the trash can.

• He is as fast as a cheetah.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I slept like a log.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What is being personified:
The wind sang a sad song.

• wind

• song

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Which phrase is NOT a simile?

• He's a workhorse.

• He's as strong as an ox.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• A comparison without using "like" or "as"

• A figure of speech in which the word imitates it's meaning.

• An extreme exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

As straight as an arrow is an example of what?

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is personification?

• The same beginning sound repeated

• Giving human characteristics to non-human things

• A word that is a sound

• An exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

What type of figurative language is shown?
The flower hugged the earth after being blown over by the storm.

• personification

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4