Figurative Language Review Game

an exaggerated statement

• hyperbole

• idiom

• personification

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a phrase that means something different from its literal meaning; language specific expressions

• hyperbole

• idiom

• personification

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

giving animate/human qualities to inanimate objects

• idiom

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

compares 2 unlike things using the words like or as

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

compares 2 unlike things without using the words like or as

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

repetition of a beginning sound

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

words/phrases having a different meaning than the literal meaning

• simile

• alliteration

• hyperdole

• figurative language

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Onomatopoeia is...

• a word that sounds like the sound it represents

• exaggeration for effect

• repetition of consonant sounds at the start of adjacent words

• Bananas

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"That's a piece of cake!" is an example of an:

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Idiom

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Pick the type of figurative language that BEST fits the sentence:

The shadow of the moon danced on the lake.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D