Identifying Figurative Language Concepts in Text!

What is personification?

• giving an inanimate object human-like characteristics.

• a way to describe people

• exaggeration to make a point

• when a person is pretending

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CCSS.RL.5.4

What is a simile?

• when something is fake

• a comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• when two words sound exactly the same

• a symbol

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

What is a metaphor?

• when you think too hard

• a type of constellation

• a comparison of two unlike things

• exaggeration

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

What is a hyperbole?

• a coffee drink from Starbucks

• use of exaggeration to emphasize a point

• giving an inanimate object human-like characteristics

• a very fast speed

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CCSS.RL.5.4

The wind howled in the night.

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

You were as brave as a lion.

• simile

• metaphor

• personifiaction

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

I am so hungry I could eat a horse.

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

He is a night owl.

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

The stairs groaned as we walked on them.

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

Watching the show was like watching grass grow.

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4