Figurative Language

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

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Your beauty was a web of frail delight

• Simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

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

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

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

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

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

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

My heart is but a haughty snail!

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

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

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

How sweet the sobbing violin

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

"The city was a jungle" is an example of what?

• alliteration
• simile
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia

"As straight as an arrow" is an example of what?

• simile
• alliteration
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia