Figurative Language Quiz

Tommy is a bull in a china shop.

• Idiom

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Gabby gulped down the Mountain Dew.

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

He told the actors to "break a leg" for good luck before the play began.

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Sally sold seashells by the seashore.

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

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?

• an exaggeration

• the repetition of the same beginning sound

• A weird expression that means something other than what it actually says

• Comparison WITHOUT using "like" or "as"

• Giving human qualities to non-humans like animal or objects

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Pick the best description for a metaphor

• Comparison WITHOUT using "like" or "as"

• the repetition of the same beginning sound

• an exaggeration

• Giving human qualities to non-humans like animal or objects

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Pick the best definition for idiom

• An exaggeration

• A weird expression that means something other than what it actually says

• Comparison using "like" or "as"

• Giving human qualities to non-humans like animal or objects

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Write a sentence using a metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Write a sentence using simile.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Why do writers use figurative language when they tell a story? Think about how the figurative language in The Tell-Tale Heart or Eleven made effected the story?

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4