Figurative Language: The Basics
Authored by Margaret Anderson
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6th - 8th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Language in which the words mean exactly what they say is...
figurative
literal
Tags
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
CCSS.RL.5.3
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
Language in which the words are meant to be understood imaginatively is...
figurative
literal
Tags
CCSS.L.3.5A
CCSS.RL.3.4
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A comparison of two unlike things using LIKE or AS.
hyperbole
simile
personification
metaphor
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5A
CCSS.L.5.5A
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A comparison of two unlike things stating that one thing IS the other (not using like or as)
idiom
simile
personification
metaphor
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5A
CCSS.L.5.5A
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects, ideas, or animals.
metaphor
onomatopoeia
personification
hyperbole
Tags
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
CCSS.RL.5.5
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Outrageous or extreme exaggeration made to emphasize a point.
hyperbole
simile
oxymoron
pun
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.5A
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A word that imitates the sound it represents.
onomatopoeia
oxymoron
pun
alliteration
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
CCSS.L.6.5
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
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