Figurative Language

What is a simile?

• Comparing two things using like or as

• Comparing two things not using like or as

• Words spelled the way they sound

• Repetition of vowel sounds

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a metaphor

• Comparing two things using like or as

• Comparing two things not using like or as

• Words spelled the way they sound

• Repetition of vowel sounds

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is personification?

• Repetition of consonant sounds

• Comparing two things not using like or as

• Giving human qualities to non human things

• Repetition of vowel sounds

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is onomatopoeia?

• Repetition of consonant sounds

• Words are spelled the way they sound

• An over exaggeration

• A phrase that needs a sentence for context

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is an oxymoron?

• An over exaggeration

• Words are spelled the way they sound

• Words that are opposite, but when put together form a new word

• A phrase that needs a sentence for context

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

What is an idiom?

• An over exaggeration

• Words are spelled the way they sound

• Words that are opposite, but when put together form a new word

• A phrase that needs a sentence for context

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

What is a hyperbole?

• An over exaggeration

• Words are spelled the way they sound

• Words that are opposite, but when put together form a new word

• A phrase that needs a sentence for context

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is an allusion?

• An over exaggeration

• Words are spelled the way they sound

• Words that are opposite, but when put together form a new word

• A word or phrase that refers back to history, mythology, the Bible, or literature

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is an alliteration?

• An over exaggeration

• Repetition of initial consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• Words that are opposite, but when put together form a new word

• A word or phrase that refers back to history, mythology, the Bible, or literature

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is a pun?

• An over exaggeration

• Repetition of initial consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• Words that are opposite, but when put together form a new word

• A play on words

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A