Figurative Language 1

Identify the figurative language or literary device used in this line:

The trees are knocking at the window.

• allusion

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Identify the figurative language or literary device used in this line:

Our dog turns into Pacman on Thanksgiving when he runs around the dinner table eating up scraps.

• allusion

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Identify the figurative language or literary device used in this line:

Aunt Tabitha is like a cat: she spends most of the day either napping or staring out the window.

• allusion

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Identify the figurative language or literary device used in this line:

Snakes slither slowly around the stack of seaweed on the sidewalk in front of Sam's Cycle Store.

• allusion

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Identify the definition for imagery.

• giving human qualities to non-human things

• a word that imitates a sound

• a reference to someone or something commonly known from literature, history, religion, or other areas of culture.

• the use of language appealing to one or more of the five senses

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5