Figurative Language

Giving human qualities to non-living objects

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Words or phrases that are repeated in writings to give emphasis

• alliteration
• repetition
• assonance
• consonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

A word that spells out a sound

• assonance
• hyperbole
• imagery
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

The repetition of two or more of the same beginning consonant sound close together

• simile
• imagery
• consonance
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

"Buzz - says the great buzzing bee."

• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"The air is like a butterfly"

• methaphor
• simile
• repetition
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a simile? 

• Comparing two things without  using  like and as
• Comparing two things in a text
• Comparing two things using  like and as
• None of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

What is a metaphor?

• Comparing two things in a text
• Comparing two things using like and as
• An exaggeration 
• Comparing two things without using like and as

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is an example of an alliteration?

• The vase flew off of the shelf. 
• Powerful pandas punch parrots.
• The plant liked to fly.
• I like to eat pie.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

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 neighboring words
• a contradictory phrase

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.7.3