Determining words and phrases

What is the definition of Figurative meaning?

• The literal definition of a word or phrase.

• The opposite definition of a word or phrase.

• The non-literal

  sense of a word or phrase.

• The common meaning of a word or phrase.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Which of the following is NOT a type of Figurative Language?

• Repetitions

• Similes

• Metaphors

• Idioms

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The phrase "busy as a bee" is what kind of Figurative Language?

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

True or False: Figurative Language always uses the literal meaning of words and phrases.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

In the following line from "The Raven", Edgar Allen Poe is using what kind of Figurative Language?

"To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom’s core"

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

" You are the apple of my eye" is an example of which of the following.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

True or False: the following phrase "the trees were dancing in the wind"

is an example of a personification.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

The following phrase is an example of which type of Figurative Language

"the popcorn in the microwave went, Pop!"

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"This quiz was a piece of cake" is an example of which type of Figurative Language?

• Idiom

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Which of the following sentences from Emily Dickinson's poem " The day came slow, til five till five o'clock" contains imagery?

#1 The day came slow, till five o’clock,

#2 Then sprang before the hills

#3 Like hindered rubies, or the light

#4 A sudden musket spills.

• Sentence

  1

• Sentence

  2

• Sentence

  3

• Sentence

  4

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9