Figurative Language in Poetry

What is personification?

• comparing two things using like or as
• giving human traits to objects or ideas
• a dramatic exaggeration
• a word that resembles the sound it represents

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is alliteration?

• giving human traits to objects or ideas
• a phrase that means something else than what it says
• repeating the same initial sound in several words
• a contradictory phrase

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is an onomatopoeia?

• a word that resembles the sound it makes
• comparing two things using "like" or "as"
• a dramatic exaggeration
• comparing two things by saying one is the other

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is a simile?

• a phrase that means something else than what it says
• comparing two things by saying one is the other
• comparing two things by using like or as
• a word that resembles the sound it represents

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is a metaphor?

• comparing two things using like or as
• repeating the same inital sound in neighboring words
• a phrase that means something else than what it says
• comparing two things by saying one is the other

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is a hyperbole?

• comparing two things using like or as
• an extreme exaggeration
• giving human traits to objects or ideas
• words or phrases that are contradictory

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Match the definition with the term:
repeating the same initial sound in several words of a phrase or sentence

• alliteration
• personification
• idiom
• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Match the definition with the term:
a word that resembles the sound it represents

• simile
• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Match the definition with the term:
giving human traits to objects or ideas

• idiom
• alliteration
• metaphor
• personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Match the definition with the term:
an exaggeration so dramatic, nobody will believe it

• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole
• oxymoron

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4