Figurative Language

I am dying of shame is an example of...

• Metaphor
• Personification
• Simile
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The snowballs were bullets, punching me in the chest, is an example of...

• A hyperbole/personification
• A metaphor/personification
• A simile/metaphor
• Personification/Onomatopoeia

Tags

TEKS.ELA.5.10D

TEKS.ELA.6.9D

TEKS.ELA.8.9D

TEKS.ELA.CW.4A

TEKS.MATH.7.9D

What is a simile? 

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

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The assignment was a breeze is an example of a(n)...

• Metaphor 
• Simile 
• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia 

Tags

TEKS.ELA.5.8

TEKS.ELA.6.7

TEKS.ELA.7.7

TEKS.ELA.8.7

TEKS.ELA.E4.6

What is personification

• Giving human qualities to a human
• Giving non living qualities to living things
• Comparing something to a nonliving thing.
• Giving human qualities to a non human things

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

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.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

I was so tired after school, I slept for a month! 

• hyperbole
• simile
• alliteration
• metaphor

Tags

TEKS.ELA.6.7

TEKS.ELA.7.7

TEKS.ELA.8.7

TEKS.ELA.E2.6

TEKS.ELA.E4.6

The car is a dinosaur so we better buy a new one.

• The car is very old.
• The car was truly made in prehistoric times.
• The car is very new.

Tags

TEKS.ELA.6.7C

TEKS.ELA.7.6I

TEKS.ELA.7.7C

TEKS.ELA.8.6I

TEKS.ELA.8.7C

"The stars will cry." The kind of figurative language used here is _______ 

• Metaphor
• Personification
• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

An extreme exaggeration used for effect

• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A