Figurative Language or Literal

She cried a river.

• Figurative Language

• Literal meaning

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Time is gold.

• Figurative Language

• Literal meaning

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

They are busy as bees.

• Figurative Language

• Literal meaning

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

The sky is full of dancing stars.

• Figurative Language

• Literal meaning

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Definition:  

when an author uses words or phrases in ways that may not be literal and makes the text interesting

• Figurative Language

• Literal Language

• Irony

• Hyberbole

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Definition: a comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• irony

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Definition: a comparison of two unlike things by saying that one thing IS another dissimilar object or thing

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• simile

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Definition:  

an exaggeration that cannot possibly be true

• allusion

• idiom

• hyperbole

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Definition: giving human qualities to nonhuman things

• imagery

• irony

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Definition: an expression that means something totally different than the the literal interpretation of its words would suggest

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• irony

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D