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

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

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"

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!"

"Miss Bimp booms"

This has what two types of figurative language

• simile and metaphor

• simile and alliteration

• onomatopoeia and alliteration

• onomatopoeia and idiom

What type of figurative language is being used:

"A full moon cuts a white path"

• personification

• simile

• alliteration

• hyperbole

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

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

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

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.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3