Figurative Language

Front

What is a metaphor?

Back

It compares two things without using 'like' or 'as'.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Front

What is a simile?

Back

It compares two things using 'like' or 'as'.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Front

Identify the following figurative language: 'I was so hungry I could have eaten an elephant.'

Back

Hyperbole.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Front

Identify the following figurative language: 'She was as happy as a clam.'

Back

Simile.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Front

Identify the following figurative language: 'The older sister was like a queen.'

Back

Simile.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Front

What is hyperbole?

Back

An over-the-top exaggeration.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Front

What is personification?

Back

Giving human traits to non-human things.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Front

Identify the following figurative language: 'The wind whispered through the trees.'

Back

Personification.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Front

What is alliteration?

Back

The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Front

Identify the following figurative language: 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'

Back

Alliteration.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4