Figurative Language Vocabulary

What is a Simile?

• Using the same word or phrase over and over again in a piece of writing.

• Emotions or feelings that are attached to words.

• Giving human qualities non human things

• Comparing two unrelated things or ideas using "like" or "as."

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is a Metaphor?

• Using the same word or phrase over and over again in a piece of writing.

• The dictionary meaning of a word.

• Comparing two things that are entirely different without using the words "like" or "as."

• Emotions or feelings that are attached to words.

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is Personification?

• Giving human qualities non human things

• A Silly Goose

• Using the same word or phrase over and over again in a piece of writing.

• Using the same word or phrase over and over again in a piece of writing.

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is an Idiom?

• Emotions or feelings that are attached to words.

• Phrases that have a meaning that is very different from its individual parts.

• The dictionary meaning of a word.

• The dictionary meaning of a word.

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is a Hyperbole?

• Emotions or feelings that are attached to words.

• Exaggerated statements meant to be taken literally.

• Giving human qualities non human things

• A Monkey jumping on the bed.

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the Denotation of a word?

• Using the same word or phrase over and over again in a piece of writing.

• Using the same word or phrase over and over again in a piece of writing.

• The dictionary meaning of a word.

• A Silly Goose

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CCSS.L.7.5C

What is the Connotation of a word?

• Giving human qualities non human things

• A Great Big Moose

• Using the same word or phrase over and over again in a piece of writing.

• Emotions or feelings that are attached to words.

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CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is Repetition in writing?

• Using the same word or phrase over and over again in a piece of writing.

• The dictionary meaning of a word.

• Emotions or feelings that are attached to words.

• Leaving the word out.

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

"It's raining cats and dogs." is an example of …

• Simile
• Connotation
• Idiom
• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

"I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse." is an example of...

• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Simile
• Denotation

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4