Al Capone Does My Shirts Part 1: Figurative Language

What type of figurative language is being used:

"There's water all around, black and shiny like tar" (4)?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

What type of figurative language is being used:

"My father tells me I've grown so much, he's going to put my supper into pickle jars and sell it under name Incredible Growth Formula" (5).

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Mark all the ones that are similes:

• "it smells like the inside of an old lunch bag"

• "the manicotti tastes like big fat spaghetti with pizza inside"

• "the buoy clangs in the distance"

• "my face is as hot as a furnace"

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Mark all the ones that are metaphors:

• "Get out of here you big baboon!"

• "Well if it isn't our very own Babe Ruth"

• "She snorts"

• "When the warden says jump...you ask how high!"

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Miss Bimp booms"

This has what two types of figurative language

• simile and metaphor

• simile and alliteration

• onomatopoeia and alliteration

• onomatopoeia and idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What type of figurative language is being used:

"A full moon cuts a white path"

• personification

• simile

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

Mark all the following idioms:

• I'm having a devil of a time

• going on a wild goose chase

• Piper has clearly gone too far

• Piper, the little slime

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What type of figurative language is the following?

"When you forget to say please, bread and water for an entire week...forget thank you and it's even worse."

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What type of figurative language is the following?

"Books are overdue, they lock you up. They have a special cell for it. Overdue library book cell."

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is a simile?

• a comparison using "like" or "as"

• a comparison, saying something IS something else.

• giving human qualities to something that is not a human.

• An over exaggeration that truly isn't believable.

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3