Figurative Language terms/examples

What does an author use to create imagery?

• facts and opinions

• main ideas

• five senses

• exaggerated text

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

When an author gives human characteristics to non-human objects, this is an example of:

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A comparison between two unlike things using the words like or as:

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

A comparison between two unlike things without using the words like or as:

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Words that represent sounds are known as:

• imagery

• hyperbole

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

When the beginning sound of words is repeated, this is an example of:

• personification

• imagery

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

When the author uses exaggerated text, this is an example of:

• alliteration

• imagery

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

An idiom is:

• an extreme exaggeration used to make a point

• an expression whose meaning is different from the meaning of individual words

• a word whose sound suggests its meaning

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

_______ is a tool that an author uses to help the reader visualize or see what is happening in a story or poem.

• Figurative Language
• Types of Figurative Language
• I don't know
• Pun

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Her eyes were diamonds; always bright and sparkling! This is an example of:

• Metaphor
• Pun
• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D