Figurative Language l

A situation that is strange or funny because things happen in a way that seems to be the opposite of what you expected.

• idiom
• metaphor
• irony
• onomatopoeia 

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Uses words that sound like their meaning, or mimic sounds.

• personification 
• onomatopoeia 
• alliteration
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

A commonly used expression whose meaning does not relate to the literal meaning of its words.

• idiom
• simile
• hyperbole
• irony

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

A figure of speech which involves creating a repetition of similar sounds in the sentence. They are also created when the words all begin with the same letter. 

• personification
• onomatopoeia 
• metaphor
• alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

An outrageous exaggeration that emphasizes a point, and can be ridiculous or funny.

• onomatopoeia 
• irony
• hyperbole
• idiom

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

 It gives human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or ideas. The non-human objects are portrayed in such a way that we feel they have the ability to act like human beings. 

• personification 
• alliteration
• simile
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unrelated things without using “like” or “as”.

• onomatopoeia 
• hyperbole
• simile
• metaphor

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CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unrelated and dissimilar things using the words “like” or “as”.

• metaphor
• simile
• idiom
• personification 

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D