8th Grade BM3 Study Guide

What is the term for words and phrases that have a meaning beyond the literal, everyday meaning?

• Alliteration

• Figurative Language

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is the repetition of the beginning consonant sounds in consecutive or closely related words within a text called?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Idiom

Which term describes a "play on words" that uses multiple meanings of a word or similar-sounding words to create humor?

• Pun

• Cliché

• Oxymoron

• Theme

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

What is a word that describes a natural sound or the sound made by an object?

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Idiom

What is the term for overused figurative statements that have become common and expected?

• Metaphor

• Cliché

• Simile

• Oxymoron

What is a phrase that combines contradictory words?

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

• Theme

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is the term for giving human qualities to something that is not human?

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is a comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Cliché

• Pun

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is a comparison between two unlike things NOT using "like" or "as"?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is an expression that has an established meaning not related to its literal meaning?

• Idiom

• Theme

• Onomatopoeia

• Cliché

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4