Access Point #: LAFS.910.L.3.AP.5eArchived Access Point

Essential Understandings

• Define various kinds of figures of speech.
• Identify a phrase that contains a simile within context.
• Identify a phrase that contains a metaphor within context.
• Sort a list of phrases into three groups – similes, metaphors and literal (not a simile or a metaphor).
• Identify an idiom or proverb within context.
• Define alliteration and identify a phrase or sentence that contains alliteration within context.
• Identify a phrase that contains allusion or personification within context.
• Identify a phrase, sentence or paragraph that contains irony within context.
• Identify the sentence that contains a pun within context. Identify allusions and personifications within context.
• Identify a phrase that contains an oxymoron within context. Identify a phrase that contains hyperbole within context.
• 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 from the text.