Identifying and Using Metaphors

What is a characteristic of metaphors?

• Metaphors cannot evoke emotions or create vivid imagery.

• Metaphors use connecting words like 'like' or 'as'.

• Metaphors create shallow associations and connections.

• Metaphors suggest that one thing is another.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

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Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?

• Her voice was music to his ears.

• The storm raged like a lion.

• The classroom is a zoo.

• Life is a rollercoaster.

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What is the definition of a metaphor?

• Similes use connecting words like 'like' or 'as' to establish a clear comparison.

• Metaphors make comparisons by stating that one thing is another thing.

• Similes directly compare two different things without using connecting words.

• Metaphors create vivid mental images by comparing something unfamiliar to something familiar.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which of the following is a characteristic of metaphors?

• Metaphors create vivid mental images by comparing something unfamiliar to something familiar.

• Similes use connecting words like 'like' or 'as' to establish a clear comparison.

• Metaphors make comparisons by stating that one thing is another thing.

• Similes directly compare two different things without using connecting words.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"The city was a jungle." is an example of what type of figurative language?

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

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The computer at the back of the class is a dinosaur!

• Simile

• Metaphor

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which of the following sentences contains a metaphor?

• The boy was upset at himself.

• The boy was a tornado of emotion

• The boy said he'd die of shame

• The boy did not like what he'd done.

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"Kiara has the heart of a lion." Identify the Figure of Speech used in this sentence.

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Simile

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.5.5A

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

• Simile

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

This sentence is an example of:

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

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CCSS.RL.2.4

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