Figurative Language

"Life is a journey" is an example of what?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

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I nearly died laughing is an example of what?

• Metaphor

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

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Which of the following is an example of onomatopoeia?

• She was white as a ghost

• Buzz

• Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Peppers

• Break a leg

Talking animals are an example of what type of figurative language?

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Cliche

• Pun

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

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"You are the thunder, and I am the lightning," is an example of which type of figurative language?

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Chliche

• Personification

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Which type of figurative language is used in the following Beatles song, "Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter?"

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Cliche

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Define hyperbole.

• An overused phrase

• Its raining cats and dogs

• An over (excessive) exaggeration

• A comparison of two unlike things, using like or as

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

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Giving human characteristics to nonhuman object or animals is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

He has been walking for days and days, when he has only been walking for 5 minutes is an example of:

• Idiom

• Simile

• Cliche

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

An expression that cannot be understood by the meaning of its words is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Cliche

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4