Figurative Language: What Does It Mean?

A comparison of two ore more different things using like or as

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A comparison of who different things by stating that one thing is another

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Giving human qualities to something non-human

• Metpahor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

An extreme exaggeration to make a point

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What type of figurative language being used in the following sentence?

The runner was a turtle in the race, and they ended up in last place.

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What type of figurative language being used in the following sentence? The heater yelled as it was turned on during the first winter of the year

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.6.5A

What type of figurative language being used in the following sentence?

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

• Idiom

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What does the sentence below actually mean?

Lightning danced across the sky.

• The lightning was at a dance party.

• There was no lightning in the sky.

• There was a lot of lightning in the sky during a storm.

• The lightning was bad at dancing.

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What does the sentence below actually mean?

The car complained as the key was roughly turned in its ignition.

• The car was not starting and making noises.

• The car was a big complainer.

• The car started up perfectly normal.

• The car hurt the person inside.

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What does the sentence below actually mean?

O my Love is like a red, red rose

That’s newly sprung in June;

• The speaker believes that roses are the most beautiful in June

• The speaker believes that the subject is very beautiful

• The speaker is picking roses

• The subject of the poem is a rose

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4