Figurative Language and Literary Devices

An object or animal spoken of as if it has human feelings, thoughts or attitude

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Personification

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Overstating something, usually for the purpose of creating a comic effect

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

An imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is

said to be another thing

• Analogy

• Simile

• Allusion

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close together

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Onomatopeia

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Choose the type of figurative language used in the following sentence:

The pilot feared heights, so he hired a therapist.

​ (a)  

• irony

• idiom

• repetition

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.8.5A

I'm so upset. I could cry a river.

This statement is an example of ​ ​ (a)  

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

• simile

• paradox

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Match the following

• word choice

• paraphrased or directly quoted detail(s) from a text that supports a reader’s claim, thought, inference, or analysis about the text

• simile

• the author’s thoughtful use of precise vocabulary to fully convey meaning to the reader

• idiom

• a comparison of two things that are essentially different, usually using the words like or as

• text evidence

• an expression that has a different meaning from the literal meaning of its individual words.  “I’m on top of the world!”

• metaphor

•  a comparison of two unlikely things in which the author describes a person using words, but it does not use like or as  “She is a ray of sunshine.”

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CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Match the following figurative language examples

• I could stare into your eyes as a thousand years come and go.

• Metaphor

• Time is a green orchard.

• Simile

• Within the town of Buffalo Are men like ants they worry to and fro,

• Personification

• Endless wealth held out its arms to me.

• Hyperbole

• Forward still, though behind I heard the moaning and the murmur of the sea.

• Imagery

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

(a)  

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

• analogy

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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 car is a dinosaur, so we better buy a new one," my mom said while climbing into the old family car.

The figurative language is an example of a(n) ​ (a)   , and it means ​ (b)   .

• metaphor

• the car is old

• simile

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• the car was made in prehistoric times

• the car is covered in bones

• the car is dirty

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7.9D