Figurative Language

She hung her head like a dying flower.

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

There is a real love hate relationship developing between the two of them.

• Hyperbole
• Metaphor
• Oxymoron
• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

There is a real love hate relationship developing between the two of them.

• Hyperbole
• Metaphor
• Oxymoron
• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Zip! My dress was fastened and I was finally ready for the wedding!

• Oxymoron
• Simile
  Onomatopoeia
• Hyperbole
  Hyperbole
• Onomatopoeia
  Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

I am so hungry I could eat a horse!

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Oxymoron
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

She was fairly certain that life was a fashion show.

• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Oxymoron
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I couldn't sleep. All I could hear was the drip, drip, drip of the faucet.

• Onomatopoeia
• Oxymoron
• Simile
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The clouds were like ice-cream castles in the sky.

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

That couch is pretty ugly.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Oxymoron
• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Kyle looked at the test with a stare as blank as a notebook.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D