Figurative Language

The pizza is as hot as ______.

• lights

• candle

• fire

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A simile compares 2 things using the words ____ or _____.

• and, or

• like, as

• and, like

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Is the following sentence a simile?
The frog jumped high.

• Yes
• No

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

True or False?

A simile COMPARES 2 things.

• True

• False

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

If something "costs an arm and a leg" it means

• Something really hurts your arms and legs

• It is really expensive

• Being treated the way that you have been treating others

• Not holding someone responsible for something

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

What does a "piece of cake" mean?

• Being in trouble

• Being worried

• Something very easy

• Something very difficult.

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Having your head in the clouds means

• Something that you never forget how to do

• Day dreaming, not paying attention

• To fail in a spectacular manner

• Someone who is acting crazy or not thinking rationally

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

"Time flies" means __________________.

• when a fly lands on a clock

• when time going very moving slowly

• your watch flies off your wrist

• time goes by very quickly

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What is personification?

• The same beginning sound repeated
• Giving human characteristics to non-human things
• A word that is a sound
• An exaggeration

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CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

"My computer throws a fit every time I use it," is an example of:

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

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CCSS.L.6.5A