English (Figures of Speech)

What are figures of speech ?

• Creating images or mind pictures in order express ourselves visually, imaginatively and powerfully.

• Using numbers when we speak.

• Counting in a specific language.

• Drawing pictures while we speak.

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Select the correct definition of a metaphor?

• A picture to describe a word.

• The name of a planet.

• the repetition of a word.

• A comparison without the use of as or like.

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which is an example of personification?

• Autumn arrived in his coat of orange leaves.

• He is a Bill Gates.

• Football fever fuels fans.

• The sky exploded with a crash.

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CCSS.L.6.5A

He was as brave as a lion.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Allusion

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Butter bakes better biscuits is an example of ?

• Rhyme

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Allusion

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Rhyming includes examples such as ?

• Eccentric Esther

• Rustling and whistling

• Certain and curtain

• Clap and hands

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Onomatopoeia is best described through which example?

• The hissing fireworks on Guy Fawkes.

• Slowly mowing the lawn.

• The curtain was damaged in the rain again.

• Pride embraced her as she walked down the aisle.

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Complete the following sentence: Assonance is the repetition of _______

• Consonants

• Sounds

• Vowels

• Rhymes

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Complete the following sentence: Alliteration is the repetition of ________ ?

• Consonants

• Vowels

• Rhymes

• Sounds

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The little duckling was pretty ugly.

• Allusion

• Irony

• Paradox

• Oxymoron