Name that Figurative Language

Drip-hiss-drip-hiss fall the raindrops / on the oaken log which burns, and steams,
and smokes the ceiling beams.  

• Simile 
• Onomatopoeia 
• Personificatoin
• Idiom 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The rain never stops.

• Hyperbole
• metaphore
• idion
• onomatopoeia 

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,

• simile
• metaphor
• idiom
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, / Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces 

• metaphor
• simile
• onomatopoeia 
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

 Fear lurks, watching me, waiting for the moment to pounce.

• Personification
• idiom
• simile
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

 Their thoughts were like golden birds.

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The sound of your breath is a music of which I will not soon tire.

• hyperbole
• personification
• simile
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

 I know that the fight that they had yesterday seemed serious, but that's just the tip of the iceberg.

• simile
• hyperbole
• Idiom
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Jacob wanted to join karate class, but with the cost of his sister's ballet class, he had to put his karate dreams on the back burner.

• idiom
• hyperbole
• simile
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Kim comes to cut colorful kites.

• simlie
• metaphor
• personification
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4