Figurative Language and Sound Devices

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6th Grade
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Scott Twerdahl
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
Only similes compare two unlike things.
Only metaphors use like or as in the comparison
Similes are literal statements
Similes use like or as, while metaphors do not
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5A
CCSS.L.5.5A
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which sound device is being used in this line?
Softly and slowly the snowflakes fell
Metaphor
Rhyme
Alliteration
Idiom
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
CCSS.L.6.5
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which figurative device is being used in this line? The salmon we caught was bigger than the boat!
Idiom
Hyperbole
Simile
Alliteration
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.5A
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which device is being used in this line?
I looked outside and it was raining cats and dogs
simile
metaphor
presonification
idiom
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5B
CCSS.L.5.5B
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which figurative device is being used in this line? The old tree stretched his long and gangly fingers towards the sky.
Simile
Personification
Hyperbole
Idiom
Tags
CCSS.L.6.5A
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which term fits this definition? A comparison between two unlike things with "like" or "as."
Metaphor
Idiom
Simile
Hyperbole
Tags
CCSS.L.6.6
CCSS.L.7.6
CCSS.W.5.2D
CCSS.W.6.2D
CCSS.W.7.2D
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which term fits the following definition? The act of giving human qualities, emotions, or body parts to an inanimate object.
Rhyme
Simile
Hyperbole
Personification
Tags
CCSS.RI.4.10
CCSS.RI.5.10
CCSS.RI.6.4
CCSS.RI.7.4
CCSS.RI.8.4
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