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Grade 5 Reading & Writing · World 3: Meaning Compass · Level 24
Idioms and Figures of Speech
Explain idioms, similes, metaphors, hyperbole, and personification.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 24
- An idiom is a saying whose meaning isn't in its words. It's raining cats and dogs just means it's raining hard.
- Similes compare with like or as. Metaphors say one thing is another. The classroom was a zoo means it was wild and noisy.
- Personification gives human actions to things: the breeze sang. Hyperbole is huge exaggeration: this backpack weighs a ton.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:
- 5.T.SS.2.a — Describe the impact of the use of figurative language such as similes, metaphors, idioms, hyperboles, and personification in response to audience and purpose, in various modes and genres. (I)