Surface Pressue Figurative Language

What type of figurative language is "I'm as tough as the crust of the earth is"?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

When Luisa says "I take what I'm handed" she is using an old expression that means she can take whatever the community dishes out--in other words, she will accept any work they give her.  What type of figurative language is this? 

• metaphor
• simile
• idiom
• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What type of figurative language is, "I feel as [crazy] as a tightrope walker in a three-ring circus"?

• simile
• personification
• hyperbole
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Luisa refers to the Greek hero Hercules, who fought Hades' 3-headed dog Cerberus when she sings this line: "Was Hercules ever like 'Yo, I don't wanna fight Cerberus'"? What type of figurative language is this? 

• Allusion

• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What type of figurative language is the old expression the straw "that breaks the camel's back"?

• Idiom
• Hyperbole
• Simile
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What type of sound device or figurative language is found in the lines: "Pressure like a drip, drip, drip that'll never stop, whoa! Pressure that'll tip, tip, tip 'till you just go pop, whoa!"?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.1.2D

CCSS.L.K.2C

CCSS.RF.2.3E

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

What 2 types of figurative language is in these lines: "Give her all the heavy things we can't shoulder. Who am I if I can't run with the ball?"  She's comparing running with a football in order to make a touchdown to completing all the jobs given to her.

• simile

• allusion

• personification

• metaphor

• idiom

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What type of figurative language or sound device is, "Pressure like a tick, tick, tick 'til it's ready to blow."?

• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia
• Simile
• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Luisa is making a reference to the famous Titanic ship that in 1912, hit an iceburg and sank when she sings this line: "The ship doesn't swerve as it heard how big the iceberg is"?  What type of figurative language is that? 

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Allusion

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Luisa says the pressure will make her "pop."  In addition to onomatopoeia, this is also 

• alliteration
• hyperbole
• simile
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A