Figurative Language

When the Wind is low, and the sea is soft, and the heat-lightning plays

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Your beauty was a web of frail delight

• Simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

Now that I am without you, all is desolate; All that was once so beautiful is dead

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

The little road says, Go,
The little house says, Stay

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

I could grow very still like an old stone on a hill

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

My heart is but a haughty snail!

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

Your kiss lies on my face
Like the first snow
Upon a summer place

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

How sweet the sobbing violin

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

An endless quiet valley spreads out
Past the blue hills into the evening sky;

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.4

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.K.5

She sang of his love forever

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.8.10