Figurative Speech: Hyperbole, Personification, Metaphor, Simile

• Personification 
• Metaphor 
• Simile 
• Alliteration 

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What is a simile?

• Comparing two unlike things

• Words that sound like sounds

• Comparing two things using like or as

• Exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a metaphor?

• Giving human qualities to inanimate objects

• Comparing two things using like or as

• Words that begin with the same sound

• Saying one thing is another thing

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is hyperbole?

• Words that begin with the same sound

• Using an unbelievable exaggeration

• Words that sound like sounds

• Comparing two things that are not alike

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is personification?

• Words that sound like sounds

• A big exaggeration

• Giving human like qualities to inanimate objects and animals

• Comparing two unlike things

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

The restless children were hopping about like kernels in a corn popper.
What figure of speech is this an example of?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The book was a spaceship that transported him to strange new worlds.
What figure of speech is this?

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Which figurative language is this?

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The dolphins danced and played in the waves.
This is an example of which figure of speech?

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

I'm so thirsty I could drink the Atlantic Ocean.
What figurative language is this an example of?

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A