Figurative Language (Practice)

A comparison between two unlike things using ‘like’ or ‘as’

• Assonance

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

an extreme exaggeration used to make a point or stress an idea.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A comparison of two things without using “like” or “as”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Extended Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words.

• Assonance

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

giving human characteristics to nonhuman things.

• Allusion

• Symbol

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A word that imitates a sound, for example BUZZ and POP:

• Onomatopoeia
• Simile
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Which of the following is the correct definition of idiom?

• a statement that expresses some kind of truth about human nature
• comparing two unlike objects using the words "like" or "as"
• an old saying that is believed to be true and is advice on how to live
• an expression that doesn't literally mean what the words say 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

a word that makes a sound (example: bang, click)

• imagery
• denotation
• onomatopeia
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

human qualities or ideas are given to non human things

• idiom
• alliteration
• imagery
• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"It is raining cats and dogs" is an example of this type of figurative language

• idiom
• simile
• metaphor
• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3