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Figurative Language Definitions and Examples
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The following sentences are an example of what type of figurative language?
The bee buzzed near my ear.
The thunder boomed loudly in the night.
Imagery
Idiom
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
CCSS.L.6.5
CCSS.L.7.5
CCSS.L.8.5
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The following sentences are an example of what type of figurative language?
Sheep should sleep in a shed.
The silky swans swam silently in the small, sparkly lake.
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Personification
Idiom
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
CCSS.L.6.5
CCSS.RL.2.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What term goes with the definition?
Personification
Imagery
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5
CCSS.L.5.5
CCSS.L.6.5
CCSS.L.7.5
CCSS.L.8.5
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What are words or phrases that are not literal; that exaggerate or alter the usual meanings of the individual words?
figurative language
clauses
illusions
commands
Tags
CCSS.L.3.5A
CCSS.RL.3.4
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
What is a comparison of two unlike things saying that one IS the other?
simile
metaphor
personification
idiom
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5A
CCSS.L.5.5A
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Harry is as slow as a sloth when he is asked to clean his room.
simile
metaphor
oxymoron
personification
Tags
CCSS.L.4.5A
CCSS.L.5.5A
CCSS.RL.5.4
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse.
hyperbole
simile
metaphor
personification
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.5A
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