Identifying Figurative Language

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English

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3rd - 8th Grade

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CCSS

L.4.5, L.11-12.5A, L.4.5A

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Carla McCarty

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6 Slides • 24 Questions

Identifying Figurative Language

Objectives

After this lesson, students will be able to:

Learn what clues can identify the figurative language elements in a piece of writing

Identify figurative language in text

Notes

You can use your notes during this game.

Figuative Language

Types

Multiple Choice

What is personification?

comparing two things using like or as

giving human traits to objects or ideas

a dramatic exaggeration

a word that resembles the sound it represents

Multiple Choice

What is a hyperbole?

comparing two things using like or as

an extreme exaggeration

giving human traits to objects or ideas

words or phrases that are the opposite of each other

Multiple Choice

What is oxymoron?

using words that are the opposite of each other together

comparing two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'

giving human qualities to things that are not human

words that imitate sound

Multiple Choice

What is understatement

words that imitate sound

repeating consonant sounds

stating something with less importance/strength than expected

extreme exaggeration

Multiple Choice

What is alliteration?

giving human traits to objects or ideas

a phrase that means something else than what it says

repeating the same initial sound in several words

a contradictory phrase

Multiple Choice

What is an onomatopoeia?

a word that resembles the sound it makes

comparing two things using "like" or "as"

a dramatic exaggeration

comparing two things by saying one is the other

Multiple Choice

What is a simile?

a phrase that means something else than what it says

comparing two things by saying one is the other

comparing two things by using like or as

a word that resembles the sound it represents

Multiple Choice

What is a metaphor?

comparing two things using like or as

repeating the same inital sound in neighboring words

a phrase that means something else than what it says

comparing two things by saying one is the other

Multiple Choice

She is a doll.

simile

metaphor

hyperbole

alliteration

Multiple Choice

Susan suddenly stretched slowly.

simile

metaphor

onomatopoeia

alliteration

Multiple Choice

Her blonde hair shined like the sun.

simile

metaphor

hyperbole

onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

Time to hit the sack!

Simile

Idiom

Alliteration

understatement

Multiple Choice

Meow!

Hypebole

Onomatopoeia

Alliteration

Simie

Multiple Choice

The angry, hot sun beamed down on us, beating us with its rays.

Personification

Oxymoron

Alliteration

Understatement

Multiple Choice

Winning a million dollar is an okay thing.

oxymoron

alliteration

understatement

simile

Multiple Choice

She’s as tiny as a mouse.

simile

metaphor

hyperbole

onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

A train is a dragon that roars through the dark.

simile

metaphor

hyperbole

alliteration

Multiple Choice

I'm feeling under the weather.

idiom

hyperbole

simile

personification

Multiple Choice

The wind dances down the road.

simile

metaphor

hyperbole

personification

Multiple Choice

Living dead

oxymoron

metaphor

hyperbole

alliteration

Multiple Choice

I'll be with you in one second.

simile

personification

understatement

onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

Jumbo shrimp

simile

alliteration

hyperbole

oxymoron

Multiple Choice

The cute car is crazy colorful.

simile

alliteration

personification

repetition

Multiple Choice

"Buzz - says the great buzzing bee."

metaphor

simile

hyperbole

onomatopoeia

Identifying Figurative Language

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