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Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language, such as metaphors and similes.
Clarifications:
Essential Understandings
- 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 a requested figure of speech (e.g., simile, metaphor or analogy) within a list of phrases and sentences.
General Information
Number: LAFS.5.L.3.AP.5a
Category: Access Points
Date Adopted or Revised:
06/14
Cluster:
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Related Standards
This access point is an alternate version of the following benchmark(s).
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