Figurative Language HW

What is the definition of a simile?

• exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

• a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words

• a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

• a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What is the definition of hyperbole?

• symbolic meaning attributed to natural objects or facts.

• an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

• exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

• a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is the definition of a metaphor?

• a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

• a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid

• an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

• the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is the definition of alliteration?

• a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

• the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

• the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the definition of personification?

• a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid

• the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words

• the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

What is the definition of an idiom?

• a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words

• the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

• the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

What is the definition of onomatopoeia?

• exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

• the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

• an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"It is raining cats and dogs!" is an example of...

• similie

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"I am so hungry I could eat a horse!" is an example of...

• idiom

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"You are my rock." is an example of...

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D