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Infer Meaning of Figurative Language Using Context Clues, Affixes and Roots Other Strategies

This document provides a summary of key concepts around figurative language including idioms, context clues, affixes, roots, similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperbole. It provides examples of each concept and asks students to identify examples and the type of figurative language being used. It concludes with a homework assignment to take a related quiz.

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Infer Meaning of Figurative Language Using Context Clues, Affixes and Roots Other Strategies

This document provides a summary of key concepts around figurative language including idioms, context clues, affixes, roots, similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperbole. It provides examples of each concept and asks students to identify examples and the type of figurative language being used. It concludes with a homework assignment to take a related quiz.

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Module 2

Infer meaning of figurative


language using context clues,
affixes and roots other
strategies
Review: Identify the idiomatic expressions in the
sentence.
:

1. When you speak to someone, hit the nail on the head.

2. I’ll eat breakfast on the fly and meet you at 7.

3. Trust me, I have a million and one ideas I can share


during the conference.
Review: Choose the meaning of the underlined words
or context clues used in the sentence.
:

1. A group of men searching for the missing plane had a


perilous journey across the mountains.
A. easy C. safe
B. dangerous D. harmless
2. It’s a mixed emotion seeing my father for the first time.
A. different feelings C. angry
B. overwhelmed D. sad
Read the poem and answer the
questions that follow.
:
Flint
(Cristina Rossetti)

An emerald is as green as grass,


A ruby red as blood;
A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;
A flint lies in the mud.
Accepting ones opinion
A diamond is a brilliant stone,
To catch the world’s desire;
An opal holds a fiery spark;
But a flint holds a fire.
Figurative language is when you use a word or
phrase that does not have its normal every day, literal
meaning. Writers can use figurative language to make
their work more interesting or more dramatic than
literal language which simply states facts.:
1. I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
2. Chris won’t drive her home because she lives on the
other side of the universe.
3. I could sleep for a year, I was so tired.
Simile-a figure of speech that directly
compares two unlike things using like
or as.
1.My love is like a red, red rose.
2. She swims like a fish.
3. Lyka is as sweet as an ice cream.
4. He is as hairy as a gorilla.
A metaphor is a figure of speech that is used to
make a comparison between two things that aren't
alike but do have something in common.

1. Laughter is the music of the soul.


2. Her lovely voice was music to his ears.
3. The world is pandemic.
Personification is when you give an animal or
object qualities or abilities that only a human can have

1. Lightning danced across the sky.


2. My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed
every morning.
3. The wind howled in the night
Hyperbole is an exaggeration used for emphasis
or humor.
1. That man is as tall as a house.
2. My dad will kill me when he comes home.
3. He's running faster than the wind.
Identify whether the sentence is a
Simile, Metaphor, Personification or
hyperbole.
1. My pencil costs me a million pesos. :

2. The calm lake was beautiful.

3. He is as strong as an ox.

4. The car danced across the road.

5. The flower is like a sun.


Evaluation: Identify the sentences. Write Simile,
Metaphor, hyperbole or personification. :
1. The snow is a white blanket.
2. She is as skinny as a toothpick.
3. The angry clouds marched across the sky.
4. This house is like a mall.
5. The flowers nodded their heads in the breeze.
Key to Correction:
1. Metaphor
2. Hyperbole or Simile
3.P Personification
4. Simile
5. Personification
Homework:

Take the quiz in your Google Classroom.

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