Independent Assessment 3 Identify the figurative language used in each sentence and figure out what means by using the different strategies you have learned in the prelious lessons Write your answer in your answer sheet Example Dan is in hot water after he was proven guilty of his wrongdoings Figurative Language: in hot water Meaning: in big trouble 1. It was so cold that I saw polar bears wearing jackets, Figurative Language: Meaning 2. It is so hot you could fry an egg on the sidewalk Figurative Language: Meaning 3. The church was decorated with a million of flowers. The flowers are immeasurable Figurative Language: Meaning 4. You are walking slower than a snail. Please, do it more quickdy. Figurative Language: Meaning 5. Mr. Cruz has been teaching here since the stone age. Some of his teaching strategies are no longer useful Figurative Language Meaning
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1. Figurative Language: polar bears wearing jacket
Meaning: too cold
2.Figurative Language: fry an egg on the sidewalk
Meaning: too hot
3.Figurative Language: million of flowers
Meaning: too many flowers
4.Figurative Language: slower than a snail
Meaning: extremely slow
5. Figurative Language: since stone age
Meaning: a long time ago
Explanation:
A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two things. Similes differ from other metaphors by highlighting the similarities between two things using comparison words such as "like", "as", "so", or " than", while other metaphors create an implicit comparison.
Metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Personification occurs when a thing or abstraction is represented as a person, in literature or art, as an anthropomorphic metaphor.
Hyperbole is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. In rhetoric, it is also sometimes known as auxesis.
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