Figurative Language Poetry Review

Giving human characteristics (personality or actions) to a non-human thing.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

His hairs are wires.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

An extreme exaggeration

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

A combination of opposite or contradictory words used to describe the same thing.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

That dog is beautifully ugly.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

The dog laid like a puddle on the floor.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

We're in school forever.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The sun smiled down at me.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

"Giving human characteristics to animals or objects" is a definition of:

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

The use of words that imitate sounds is a definition of:

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4