Access Point #: LAFS.1112.RL.2.AP.4aArchived Access Point

Essential Understandings

• Define connotative meanings of words.
• 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.