English 2 Review: Figurative Language

My little sister is a monster when she hasn’t had a nap.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

He's really on the ball!

• Simile 
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Idiom

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

The tropical storm slept for two days.

• Metaphor
• Personification
• Simile
• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.5A

That apple pie looks terribly good.

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• oxymoron

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

All the tears she cried filled up a lake.

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

• metaphor

• personification

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

We ordered a plate of jumbo shrimp.

• metaphor

• personification

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

"Life is a highway / I'm gonna' ride it all night long."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.L.4.5A

Identify the paradox.

• She's awfully good.

• The blank page stared back at me.

• It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.

• They danced in the moonlight.

Identify the paradox. 

• Whose turn is it?
• Robert carefully built a model of the ship.
• Remember to take out the trash.
•  If you want peace, you must prepare for war.

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Identify the paradox.

• The best advice I have for you is: don’t listen to advice.
• The rains came.
• Parting is such sweet sorrow.
• She cared for him all his life.

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4