Figurative Language and Author's Purpose

Authors use this to make their writing more imaginative and interesting. Examples include simile, metaphor, and personification.

• Text Features

• Sensory Images

• Figurative Language

• Rhyming Couplet

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

What is being personified? 
The moon guided me through the forest.

• moon
• forest
• me

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What does this mean?
When my great uncles drives, he is as slow as a turtle. 

• very slow
• moves pretty quickly
• still beats everyone
• he's super fast

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.L.3.5A

What type of figurative language is this?
The snow was a blanket covering the ground.

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

She sells sea shells by the sea shore is an example of:

• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Simile
• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What's the meaning of this simile?
"My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time."

• Her hair is red.
• She talks really loudly.
• She gets really angry. 
• She spits when she talks. 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

'Pop! The cork flew from the champagne bottle.'  The word 'pop' is an example of:

• personification
• onomatopoeia
• simile
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

'Her eyes were sparkling diamonds' is an example of:

• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

 “I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse!” is an example of what figurative language device? 

• Hyperbole
• Personification 
• Simile 
• Metaphor 

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

“It's a piece of cake.”

• hyperbole

• idiom

• allusion

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A