Figurative Language Elementary

Why do we even use 'figurative language'?

• So that some people will not understand

• To make reading, writing, and speaking more fun

• To make writing more fun

• To make it hard for others to figure out

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Words that sound kind of like the noise they make are called ___.

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

When we repeat the first letter a word several times in a sentence, it is called ___.

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• personification

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

When we make a thing that is not human SEEM human, we are using ___.

• crazy talk

• alliteration

• personification

• metaphors

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

When we use the words 'like' or 'as' to compare things, we are using ___.

• metaphor

• simile

• smile

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

If the author says that a person or thing IS another object (comparing the two), they are using ___.

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• language arts

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"Rob rowed his boat toward the red riverboat" is an example of ___.

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• 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

"The angry clouds marched across the sky" is an example of ___.

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"That kid is a bull in a china shop" is a(n) ___.

• alliteration

• metaphor

• smile

• personification

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"Bam! Pow! The baby's balloons popped loudly" is an example of ___.

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5