Figurative Language

Your beauty was a web of frail delight

• Simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

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

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

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

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

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

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

This school is an asylum.

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

I bolted out the door like a horse leaving the gate for a race.

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I waited a million years for my ride to get to the house.

• alliteration
• repetition
• idiom
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The rope SNAPPED in half, and the panic in the child's face was evident.

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Sally is the sun in my life

• Sally is yellow.
• Sally is standing on the roof.
• Sally is important to me.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I'm dying to see that movie.

• I can wait a little longer.
• I don't want to see the movie.
• I'm excited about seeing the movie.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A