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Figurative Language

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Note from the author:
Take figurative language beyond recall and identify. This allows students to answer what figurative language means and how it impacts meaning.
Read the passages and answer the figurative language questions.
Visions of Jellyfish
Meg and her father stepped through the doors of the aquarium. This was the first day of a jellyfish exhibit. Meg had been looking forward to seeing it for weeks.
“Come on, Dad,” she said. They approached the first of several tall tanks. Jellyfish, transparent as ghosts, floated through the water. Their long tentacles were party streamers trailing behind.
“Look at these,” Meg whispered, moving to the second tank. “They are little brown parachutes!” “Those are Pacific sea nettles,” her dad said. "You wouldn’t want to swim with one of those. They have a sting that feels like you’ve been touched by fire.”
“Look at this one!” Meg said. She pointed to a tank that had a long, oval jellyfish. Meg noticed rows of plates that looked like combs ran along its body.
“It’s a comb jelly. Look at all the different colors, like a rainbow. It’s beautiful,” she breathed.
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“They have a sting that feels like you’ve been touched by fire” means that the sting—

The text states, "Their long tentacles were party streamers trailing behind." Using the whiteboard, draw what the metaphor helps you see.
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After reading about Meg's visit to the jellyfish exhibit, the reader can infer that she learns by-_______________________________________________________
Other Answer Choices:
reading nonfiction texts about jellyfish
touching what she is learning about
comparing jellyfish to things she is familiar with
Hoodoo You Think They Are?
Here, stone pillars seem to grow like trees. There are pillars everywhere. Some pillars are the height of a person. Others stand as tall as a ten-story building.
This is Bryce Canyon, Utah. The stone pillars are hoodoos. Bryce Canyon is in a desert. Many mornings, frost drapes the canyon like icing on a cake. By afternoon, the canyon warms up and the frost melts away. This freezing and thawing helped to create the hoodoos. Water erosion helped, too.
The hoodoos are made up of layers of rock. The layers are colorful ribbons wrapped around the stone. Different kinds of rock wear away at different speeds. These differences result in the hoodoos’ strange shapes. Some, called spires, are like great big arms reaching upward. Others are solid and broad, like a castle wall.
When you see their red shapes outlined against the sky, bright as a robin’s blue egg, you might just want to paint a picture of them!
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In the first paragraph, the author compares some pillars to a ten-story building to show—

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Why would the author compare frost on the canyon to icing on a cake? Select the best two answers.

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Based on the author's choice of figurative language usage, what opinion does he/she have about hoodoos?

Down to a Fine Art
A sign that read “Annual Chalk Art Festival” hung over the street. Already, the sidewalk was a museum. One woman was sketching a mountain stream, and a kid not much older than me outlined a butterfly. I could hardly take my eyes off the street as my brother Jake and I walked around. One picture caught my eye. An artist named Kim had sketched a doorway. I hung back, wanting to look at Kim’s drawing.
“Come on, Riley,” Jake urged, “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.” I grudgingly followed Jake a few blocks down the street to a food stand selling popcorn and pretzels. The smell of butter and salt was in the air, making my stomach growl. We each wolfed down a pretzel. Then we headed back toward Kim’s drawing. On the way, we heard the notes of a jazz band, soothing as a lullaby, playing against the clamorous chatter of spectators.
When we got back to Kim’s drawing, I could not believe my eyes. There in front of me were steps descending into a subway station, except they were drawn in chalk. And emerging from the station was a chalk-drawn robot that looked so real I thought it was headed right for me. This picture was going to win the contest, hands down!
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Why is the sidewalk compared to a museum?

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Riley and Jake are real hungry. Provide two examples of figurative language as text evidence to prove this statement.

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Describe the setting of the story. Identify two examples of figurative language that help you visualize this setting.