Figurative Language

Front

Technique to compare two unlike things using "LIKE" or "AS."

Back

simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Front

Technique using repetitive consonant sounds for effect.

Back

alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Front

Words that imitate sounds.

Back

onomatoepia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Front

Comparison of two unlike things.

Back

metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Front

Technique giving human traits to non-human things.

Back

personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Front

Figurative language in: Sivan listened to the chatter of third-graders racing on the playground.

Back

onomatoepia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Front

Form of figurative language: Ben was a human calculator, finishing all equations in under five minutes!

Back

metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Front

Figurative language in: 'Neev has a million pairs of Air Jordans!'

Back

hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Front

Figurative language in: "The fire hissed and crackled in the stone fireplace."

Back

onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Front

Punctuation in dialogue should be outside quotation marks.

Back

FALSE

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4