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MENU: FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Directions:Now that you have learned aboutfigurative language, try a taste of each activity. Your goal is to eat up to 175 -140 points for an “A,” 139 - 120 points for a “B,” 119 - 100 points for a “C,” and 99 - 70 points for a “D.” Read over the options and their point values before you begin.

Appetizer of Knowledge & Comprehension – Worth 5 points each

  1. What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor? ______

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  1. Define idiom. ______

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  1. Give an example of personification. ______

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  1. What is the difference between hyperbole and understatement? ______

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Dinner of Application & Analysis – Worth 10 points each

1. Analyze the figurative language: Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines / Diggin' in my own back yard.

What it means is that ______ ______

2. Analyze the figurative language: Here’s a faucet in the basement / that had dripped one drop all year since he fixed it, we can’t find it / without wearing scuba gear.

What it means is that ______ ______

3. Analyze the figurative language: Endless wealth, / I thought, / held out its arms to me.

What it means is that ______ ______

4. Analyze the figurative language: After getting my report card / I knew it was time to hit the books.

What it means is that ______

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5. Analyze the figurative language: My soul has grown deep like rivers

What it means is that ______

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6. Analyze the figurative language: Love is a young green willow / shimmering at the bare wood's edge.

What it means is that ______

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7. Analyze the figurative language: After getting my report card / I knew it was time to hit the books.

What it means is that ______

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Dessert of Synthesis – Worth 15 points each

1. Diagram a Frayer’s Model for the term “simile,” “metaphor,” “personification,” “idiom,” “hyperbole,” and/or “understatement.” This is what you often do with vocabulary words on your homework. Place your term in the middle. In the top left corner write your definition. In the bottom left corner give 3 examples. In the right bottom corner give three non-examples. In the top right corner give an illustration of term or one of your examples of the term.

2. Create a cartoon showing the difference between interpreting a statement figuratively versus literally. Be sure to show what happens when your character misinterprets a statement. Your cartoon must be at least 3 cells/boxes in length.

3. Design a set of figurative language flashcards. Your flash cards should have the term on one side and the definition and examples of the term on the other side.

Midnight Snack of Evaluation – Worth 5 points each

  1. What type of figurative language?: Bear in mind / That death is a drum

Circle One: SIMILEMETAPHORPERSONIFICATION

  1. What type of figurative language?: It is dreams that have destroyed us.

Circle One: SIMILEMETAPHORPERSONIFICATION

  1. What type of figurative language?: He walked as softly as a cat / And told me many lies.

Circle One: SIMILEMETAPHORPERSONIFICATION

  1. What type of figurative language?: And then my heart with pleasure fills, / And dances with the daffodils.

Circle One: SIMILEMETAPHORPERSONIFICATION

  1. What type of figurative language?: My brain is fire--my heart is lead! / Her soul is flint, and what am I?

Circle One: SIMILEMETAPHORPERSONIFICATION

  1. What type of figurative language?: The Balloons hang on wires / they float their faces on the sky.

Circle One: SIMILEMETAPHORPERSONIFICATION

  1. What type of figurative language?: Words is like the spots on dice: no matter how you fumbles ‘em, there’s times when they just won’t come.

Circle One: SIMILEMETAPHORPERSONIFICATION

  1. What type of figurative language?: Cause I walk like I've got oil wells / Pumping in my living room.

Circle One: SIMILEMETAPHORPERSONIFICATION