Clarifications:
Essential Understandings
- Explain the various figures of speech.
- Identify a phrase that contains a simile from a list.
- Identify a phrase that contains a metaphor from a list.
- Sort a list of phrases into three groups – similes, metaphors and literal (not a simile or a metaphor).
- Identify an idiom or proverb from a list.
- Define alliteration.
- Identify a phrase or sentence that contains alliteration from a list.
- Identify a phrase that contains allusion or personification from a list.
- Identify a phrase, sentence or paragraph that contains irony from a list.
- Identify the sentence that contains a pun from a list of sentences.
- Sort a list of statements containing allusions and personifications into correct groups.
- Identify a phrase that contains an oxymoron from a list.
- Identify a phrase that contains hyperbole from a list.
- Identify a requested figure of speech (e.g., hyperbole, oxymoron, irony, pun, alliteration, allusion, personification, simile, metaphor or analogy) within a list of phrases and sentences.
| Number: LAFS.910.L.3.AP.5d | Category: Access Points |
| Date Adopted or Revised: 06/14 | Cluster: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use |