Figurative Language - cacsk12.org · of figurative language in literary works, including idioms, similes, hyperboles, metaphors, and personification. What Is A Similes? A comparison
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1. AV4. Identify and understand new uses of words and phrases in text, such as similes and metaphors.
2. RA: L.8. Identify and explain the use of figurative language in literary works, including idioms, similes, hyperboles, metaphors, and personification.
What Is A Similes?
A comparison in which the subject is compared to another subject using the words like or as.
–Ex: The snow was like a blanket.
–Ex: A dresser is like a sunken treasure chest.
What Is A Metaphor?
Is a comparison between two or more unrelated subjects.
–Example: My closet is a time machine.
This takes the form: "the [first subject] is a [second subject]."
What is an Idioms?
Literal meaning is different from the figurative meaning.
–Ex. She let the cat out of the bag.
What is a Hyperbole?
Statements are exaggerated
–Ex: I hit the baseball so far it hit the side of the moon.
–Ex: Their lunchroom stretches to another county.
What Is Personification?
Makes something seem human that isn’t.
–EX: The bear was talking to the little girl.
–Ex: The breeze whispers through the porch screens.
What Is Alliteration?
Alliteration means repeating beginning consonant sounds.
–Ex: She sells seashells on the sea shore.
–Ex: Flutter, squawk and fly
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