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Grade 6 Poetic Devices CCSS: CCRA.R.5, RL.6.5
'Once by the Pacific' by Robert Frost

The shattered water made a misty din.
Great waves looked over others coming in.

The figurative language in line 2 of this poem...
  1. makes the waves seem human
  2. compares the waves to one another
  3. exaggerates the size of the waves
  4. makes the reader hear the waves
Grade 6 Figurative Language
Determine what type of figurative language is being used:

The sea is a diamond as it sparkles in the sun.
  1. Metaphor
  2. Simile
  3. Personification
  4. Hyperbole
  5. Onomatopoeia
Grade 6 Figurative Language
"He'd have to fight the female gorilla now."
This is an example of which type of figurative language?
  1. simile
  2. metaphor
  3. alliteration
  4. onomatopoeia
Grade 6 Figurative Language
Determine the type of figurative language being used:

He clattered and clanged as he washed the dishes.
  1. Metaphor
  2. Simile
  3. Personification
  4. Hyperbole
  5. Onomatopoeia
Grade 6 Idiom
If you are feeling under the weather you are:
  1. happy
  2. not feeling well
  3. silly
  4. not excited
Grade 6 Idiom
What is the correct way to write the idiom that means "to understand something completely"?
  1. hit the nail with the head
  2. hit the nail on the head
  3. hit the nail over the head
  4. hit the nail to the head
Grade 6 Figurative Language CCSS: CCRA.R.4, RL.6.4
Read the sentence below.

The over-cooked hot dogs were sticks of coal.

The metaphor in this sentence means which of the following?
  1. The hot dogs were made of charcoal.
  2. The hot dogs were burnt.
  3. The pieces of charcoal were shaped like hot dogs.
  4. The sticks of coal were burning.
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