Effects of Figurative Language

Giving an object human like characteristics or qualities

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• idiom

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

an exaggeration usually for humor or dramatic effect

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

a comparison of two unlike things without using like or as

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• simile

• alliteration

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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 type of figurative language is this? It took me 20 hours to do my homework last night.

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• idiom

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

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.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

A commonly used expression of figurative language.

They are often cultural and do not make sense literally.

• Idiom

• Alliteration

• Figurative Langauge

• Tongue Twister

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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 repitition of the first letter or sound in a group of words

• reptition

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• allusion

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a comparison of two things using like or as

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

Which type of figurative language is this? Last night, I slept like a log.

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Which type of figurative language is this? Your eyes are sapphires.

• idiom

• allusion

• metaphor

• simile

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D