Figurative Language Quiz

What is a metaphor?

• Comparing two things using like or as

• Comparing two things NOT using like or as

• Pineapple

• an overused predictable expression

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is imagery?

• Visually descriptive language that appeals to the 5 senses

• Giving human qualities to animals or objects

• Cows

• An extreme exaggeration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is a simile?

• a comparison that does NOT use like or as

• Horse

• A comparison that uses like or as

• an object that represents an idea

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is hyperbole?

• An object that represents an idea

• Pig

• An expression whose meaning is different than the words

• An extreme exaggeration

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is personification?

• Giving human qualities to animals or objects

• A comparison that includes the words like or as

• Goat

• a word that is like the sound it makes

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CCSS.L.6.5A

What is an idiom?

• An expression whose meaning is different than the words

• A comparison that uses like or as

• Dog

• the repetition of the beginning letter of words

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

What is onomatopoeia?

• a word that is like the sound it makes

• Giving human qualities to animals or objects

• an extreme exaggeration

• Sheep

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is alliteration?

• the repetition of the beginning letter of words

• An overused predictable expression

• Mouse

• an extreame exaggeration

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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 a symbol?

• an object that represents something else

• an expressions whose meaning is different from the words

• comparing two things NOT using like or as

• Cat

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Give an example of a Metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D