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Usage Guide:

This menu focuses on figurative language including simile, metaphor,

personification, idiom, hyperbole, and understatement. Students choose which
activities to complete to score their desired grade.

The activities cover all six levels of Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge,

Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation. A list of related
Common Core standards is also included.

This is a great activity to use after introducing these terms or to help students
review for a quiz or test. Students are able to complete the activities independently
and really show you what they know, so this menu could also be used as an
alternative assessment.

Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.1
Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical
inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to
support conclusions drawn from the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.4
Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining
technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word
choices shape meaning or tone.

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Digital Usage Guide

Is your classroom 1:1 or paperless? Do your students complete and submit all of their assignments
through Google Classroom or another learning management system? Read on to find out how to
access student versions of these resources and share them with your students online.

Step 1: In this folder you will find the individual student pages of this resource.
Step 2: Download the PDF files you want to share with your students or add them directly to your Google
Drive. See how to do that here. You can then upload the file(s) to your Google Classroom.
Step 3: Students can use DocHub, a Google Classroom add-on, to complete and submit the assignment.

You can find a short, explicit video with directions for students here.

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Name: Date:

MENU: FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Directions: Now that you have learned about figurative 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? ______________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Define idiom. ___________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Give an example of personification. ________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________
4. What is the difference between hyperbole and understatement? ________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________

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 _______________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________________

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 _______________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________________

7. Analyze the figurative language: You are getting on my last nerve.

What it means is that _______________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________________

Dessert of Synthesis – Worth 15 points each

1. Diagram a Frayer’s Model for the term “simile,” “metaphor,”
“personification,” “idiom,” “hyperbole,” and/or
“understatement.” 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 3 non-examples. In the top right corner
give an illustration of term or one of your examples.
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 10 points each

1. What type of figurative language?: Bear in mind / That death is a drum
Circle One: SIMILE METAPHOR PERSONIFICATION
Justify your answer: _______________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________
2. What type of figurative language?: He walked as softly as a cat / And told me many lies.
Circle One: SIMILE METAPHOR PERSONIFICATION
Justify your answer: _______________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________
3. What type of figurative language?: The balloons hang on wires / they float their faces on the sky.
Circle One: SIMILE METAPHOR PERSONIFICATION
Justify your answer: _______________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________
4. 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: SIMILE METAPHOR PERSONIFICATION
Justify your answer: _______________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________

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 ANSWER KEY

MENU: FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Directions: Now that you have learned about figurative 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? A simile uses like or as to indirectly compare
two things and a metaphor is a direct comparison that does not use like or as.
2. Define idiom. An idiom is a common expression that means something other than the literal meaning of its
words.
3. Give an example of personification. Answers may vary. Example: The snowflakes danced in the night sky.
4. What is the difference between hyperbole and understatement? A hyperbole over exaggerates while
an understatement under exaggerates.

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 I laugh like I am a very rich person, loudly and free of cares.
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 the faucet has been leaking for a long time and there is a lot of water.
3. Analyze the figurative language: Endless wealth, / I thought, / held out its arms to me.

What it means is that money and wealth were available to me.

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

What it means is that after seeing the grades on my report card, I knew I needed to study.
5. Analyze the figurative language: My soul has grown deep like rivers

What it means is that my personality is complex, I have many layers, I am not a superficial person.
6. Analyze the figurative language: Love is a young green willow / shimmering at the bare wood's edge.
What it means is that love is just beginning, or love is new.
7. Analyze the figurative language: You are getting on my last nerve.

What it means is that You are annoying me.

Dessert of Synthesis – Worth 15 points each

1. Diagram a Frayer’s Model for the term “simile,” “metaphor,”
“personification,” “idiom,” “hyperbole,” and/or
“understatement.” 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 3 non-examples. In the top right corner

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give an illustration of term or one of your examples. Diagrams will vary, but must follow format.
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. Cartoons will vary but must be at least 3 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. Flashcards should include definitions and examples
for simile, metaphor, personification, idiom, hyperbole, and understatement.

Midnight Snack of Evaluation – Worth 10 points each

1. What type of figurative language?: Bear in mind / That death is a drum
Circle One: SIMILE METAPHOR PERSONIFICATION
Justify your answer: Death is directly compared to a drum without using like or as.
2. What type of figurative language?: He walked as softly as a cat / And told me many lies.
Circle One: SIMILE METAPHOR PERSONIFICATION
Justify your answer: How he walks is compared to how a cat walks using “as.”
3. What type of figurative language?: The balloons hang on wires / they float their faces on the sky.
Circle One: SIMILE METAPHOR PERSONIFICATION
Justify your answer: The balloons are given the human-like quality of having faces.
4. 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: SIMILE METAPHOR PERSONIFICATION
Justify your answer: Words are compared to spots on a dice using “like.”

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