What Is Figurative Language

This type of figurative language is a common expression a large group of people use to express something that a smaller group or group from another area may not understand

• idiom

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.6.6

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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!

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CCSS.L.6.5A

Which of the following in an example of onomatopoeia?

• Boom!

• No!

• Yes!

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CCSS.L.4.5

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CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

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

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What is figurative language?

• Language that uses words or expressions that are different from what is actually meant.

• Language that makes reading more interesting.

• Language that makes writing more interesting.

• All of the above

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

"I have a mountain of homework to complete."

• Literal

• Figurative

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CCSS.L.3.5A

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Which two phrases use figurative language?

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Figurative language (4)

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CCSS.RI.4.10

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

What is personification?

• The same beginning sound repeated

• Giving human characteristics to non-human things

• A word that is a sound

• An exaggeration

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CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Why do people use figurative language?

• To make their writing interesting and visual, or to emphasis an idea and make a point.

• To be grammatically correct.

• To structure their writing into paragraphs.

• Because Beyonce uses it in her songs. 

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CCSS.RL.7.3