Simile Metaphor Personification

Which of the following is an example of personification?

• You are as a beautiful as a flower.

• The trees danced in the wind.

• I waited in line for 10 years!

• He is an encyclopedia of knowledge. 

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CCSS.L.6.5A

As straight as an arrow is an example of what?

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which is an example of a simile?

• His room was a hurricane of a mess.

• His room looked as if a hurricane came  through.

• A hurricane! AHHH!

• The hurricane screamed through the town. 

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• A comparison without using "like" or "as"

• A figure of speech in which the word imitates it's meaning.

• An extreme exaggeration

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The stars danced in the night.

• Not personification

• Personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

The flowers danced in the breeze.

• Personification

• Not Personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

What is personification

• Giving human traits to non-human things

• comparing 2 unlike things

• a word that makes you hear sound

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CCSS.L.6.5A

The brownies were calling my name.

• Personification

• Not Personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

New York City never sleeps.

• Personification

• Not Personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

What is this is an example of: The clock on the wall laughed at me as I tried to finish my test before class ended.

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A