Access Point #: LAFS.6.L.3.AP.5dArchived Access Point

Explain the meaning of figures of speech (e.g., personification, idioms, proverbs) in context.
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 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.
General Information
Number: LAFS.6.L.3.AP.5d
Category: Access Points
Date Adopted or Revised: 06/14

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1000000: M/J Intensive Language Arts (MC)
1000010: M/J Intensive Reading 1
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1001010: M/J Language Arts 1
1001020: M/J Language Arts 1 Advanced
1002000: M/J Language Arts 1 Through ESOL
1002180: M/J English Language Development (MC)
1006000: M/J Journalism 1
1007000: M/J Speech and Debate 1
1008010: M/J Reading 1
1008020: M/J Reading 1, Advanced
1009000: M/J Creative Writing 1
1009030: M/J Writing 1
7810011: Access M/J Language Arts 1 
1002181: M/J Developmental Language Arts Through ESOL (Reading)
1007025: M/J Speech and Debate

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