3.1.12 figurative language (poet's toolbox)

You are simply the sun in my sky.

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Choose two:

Death crept in like a thief and without a word, stole what was most dear to me.

• allusion

• juxtaposition

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

Abraham Lincoln, what would you say today?

• apostrophe

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

Three are included, one is not. Which is NOT included?

My mother was the rock of our family, my father was like the hot air balloon.

• Juxtaposition

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

He came in, like a whirlwind.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• illusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Pick two:

He was like a modern day Moses.

• metaphor

• simile

• allusion

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Seeing slithering snakes makes my spine shiver.

• alliteration

• personification

• metaphor

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

O, Life, why are you so hard?

• assonance

• allusion

• apostrophe

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

While my elementary school was like picking at cotton candy, junior high was more like trying to eat a caramel apple with braces.

• juxtaposition

• apostrophe

• repetition

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Pick two:

When I ran away, I ran fast, and I ran fearfully, and I ran far.

• repetition

• alliteration

• simile

• juxtaposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3