ELA Figurative Language

Whats this figurative language? "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers"

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• 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

whats the figurative language of this? "boing, gargle, clap, zap, and pitter-patter"

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

whats this figurative language "Get a taste of your own medicine"

• personification

• hyperbole

• idiom

• 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

whats this figurative language? "Lightning danced across the sky"

• idiom

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

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CCSS.L.6.5A

the use of literary and poetic devices to describe something by comparing it with something else

• genre

• folklore

• figurative language

• myth

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

An example of figurative language in this text is?  Figurative language most likely means

• 1. A message or moral of a text that often explores timeless and universal ideas and is almost always implied rather than stated explicitly.

• 1. The way that a piece of writing is organized. For example, chronological order, steps in a process, problem/solution, etc.

• 1. A non-literal (sensory or symbolic) language that helps a reader understand the meaning in a text; for example, simile, metaphor, personification

• 1. A statement, as part of an argument, that can be supported with evidence.

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

"Figurative language" is...

• What a word really means

• Not literal, but gives you a picture in your mind (White as snow)

• When you talk about shapes

• Something poets use to make their poems harder to read.

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Writing that is not meant to be taken literally; used for descriptive effect 3

• Sensory details

• Analogy

• Figurative language

• Context clues

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What is "figurative language"?

• The attitude of a writer or speaker towards a subject or audience.

• A message or moral of a text.

• A method of organization in which a writer examines similarities and differences.

• Non-literal (sensory or symbolic) language that helps a reader understand the meaning in a text.

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Which of the following is an example of hyperbole?

• The classroom was a zoo.

• I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

• The leaves danced in the wind.

• She is as busy as a bee.

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A