Figurative language

What is a metaphor

• Comparing two things that are not alike to suggest they have something in common

• An exaggeration I can’t possibly be true

• The repetition of beginning, consonant know it sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables

• a figure of speech that makes a reference to a place, person, or event

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

What is a simile

• Exaggeration that can’t possibly be true

• Compares two unlike things using like or as

• Giving something unhuman, actual human qualities

• A pro verb or short statement expressing a general truth

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a hyperbole?

• An expression of two or more words, that mean something other than the actual literal meaning

• The repetition of beginning, consonant , sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables

• Exaggeration that can’t possibly be true

• Giving something unhuman, actual human qualities

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is alliteration?

• Compares two unlike things using like or as

• Giving something unhuman actual human quality

• In allusion is a figure of speech that makes a reference to a place, person, or event

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

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is onomatopoeia?

• Naming a thing or an action by imitating the sound associated with it

• Comparing two things that are not alike to suggest they have something in common

• Giving something unhuman, actual human qualities

• A pro verb or short statement expressing a general truth

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is personification?

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

• Naming a thing or an action by imitating the sound associated with it

• A pro verb or short statement expressing a general truth

• Giving something unhuman, actual human qualities

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

What is an idiom?

• An expression of two or more words that means something other than the actual or a literal meaning

• A figure of speech that reference to a place, person, or event

• an exaggeration that can’t possibly be true

• Naming a singer, or an action by imitating the sound associated with it

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

What is an allusion?

• An expression of two or more words that means something other than the actual or literal meaning

• Naming a thing or an action by imitating the sound

• A figure of speech that makes a reference to a place, person, or event

• Exaggeration that can’t possibly be true

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is Adage?

• And expression of two or more words, that mean something other than the actual or literal meaning

• A pro verb or short statement expressing a general truth

• Naming a thing or an action, by imitating the sound associated with it

• comparing two things that are not alike to suggest they have something in common

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B