Figurative Language

Match the following

• hyperbole

• The language peculiar to a group of people. Special sayings that only certain people would understand.

• Simile

•  Comparing two things by using one kind of object. Stating one object is another object.

• Alliteration

• Big exaggeration, usually with humor

• idiom

• The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables

• Metaphor

• A comparison using like or as.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

Match the following

• idiom

• That test was a "piece of cake"

• hyperbole

• I am a bear.

• Metaphor

• I’m as hungry as a pig.

• Alleration

• Suzy sells seashells by the seashore.

• Simile

• I just ate an icecream cone the size of Texas!

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Brown Hair is an example of a...

• physical trait

• character trait

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

Kind is an example of a...

• character trait

• physical trait

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

Auggie went to to the tour and as he went, he struggled to give anyone eye contact.

• indirect charactertization

• direct characterization

Auggie is nervous as he goes to the tour.

• direct characterization

• indirect characterization

Match the following

• Pun

• "DONUT forget my coffee!"

• The trees were dancing

• Onomatopoeia

• POP!

• Personifcation

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A