Figurative Language

What is a simile?

• Comparing two unlike things without using like or as

• Comparing two things in a text

• Comparing two unlike things using like or as

• None of the above

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a metaphor?

• Comparing two things in a text

• An over exageration

• Comparing two things without using like or as

• Comparing two things using like or as

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What id a hyperbole?

• Telling the truth

• An exaggerated statement not to be taken literally

• Comparing a rock to a board

• I like to eat pie

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is an example of alliteration?

• The plant liked to fly

• I like to eat

• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

• The vase flew off the shelf

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The firework exploded in the air, making a big BOOM! in the air, is an example of?

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

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

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The ball jumped out of the receiver's hands.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Personification

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

When you give human-like qualities to something that is not human.

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Words that resemble the sound that they describe.

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

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CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

The rain falls like the sun, rising upon the mountains.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4