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FigurativeLiteraryTerms
Follow the directions below for each website. Your assignment will be due tommorrow. Any questions, see Mrs. Schroeder.
Fun Define Figurative Language
Whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else, you are using figurative language. Any language that goes beyond the literal meaning of words in order to furnish new effects or fresh insights into an idea or a subject. The most common figures of speech are simile, metaphor, and alliteration.
Just to help out, let's all be on the same page for this assignment. Click on the links below to review meanings of Figurative Literary Language.
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Please take your computers to the following link:
You will be on a gray main page with a list of terms.
1) Click on the links to the following words. "Alliteration", "Idiom", "Imagery", "Onomatopeia", "Metaphor"
2) Read each page
3) Take that page quiz
4) On a seperate sheet of paper, write down the style of figurative language and the score you got:
Example: Alliteration =95%
5) Turn in to Mrs. Schroeder when completed.
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FunBrain Idiom Quiz
Please click on the link below and take the Idiom quiz. On the same seperate sheet of paper, write down your results.
Please use the "Hard" version under each of your quizzes...Animals/Moods/Body Parts
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