Figurative Language

This coffee shop is an ice box!

• simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• personification

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I move fast like a cheetah on the Serengeti.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The sky misses the sun at night

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Repetition

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CCSS.L.6.5A

I've told you a million times to clean your room!

• Alliteration

• Personification

• metaphor

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

I can smell pizza from a mile away.

• metaphor

• simile

• Hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Which one is “ Alliteration “?

• I told you million times not to touch that!

• He has a heart of stone.

• Watching that movie was like watching grass grow.

• Your friends will flip-flop fast when facing trouble.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"Pop! The cork flew from the champagne bottle." The word 'pop' is an example of:

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"You are like a ray of sunshine!" is an example of:

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a simile?

• Comparing two unlike things
• Words that sound like sounds
• Comparing two things using like or as
• Exaggeration

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is onomatopoeia?

• Words that sound like sounds
• Two or more words that begin with the same sound
• Exaggeration
• Giving a thing the qualities of a person

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5