Figurative Language Review

Example: "If I can't get the new iPhone, I will die."

• irony
• hyperbole
• metaphor
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Example: "This car goes faster than the speed of light."

• simile
• hyperbole
• irony
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Example: "Don't be such a Scrooge with your money."

• alliteration
• pun
• allusion
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

a humorous play on the double meaning of related words

• simile
• pun
• allusion
• irony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Example: "That lesson was as clear as mud."

• simile
• hyperbole
• pun
• irony

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Example: "The sky was a canvas painted with all the colors of the rainbow."

• hyperbole
• allusion
• metaphor
• pun

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

a word that imitates the sound it represents

• assonance
• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

the use of words that mean the opposite of what one really intends

• pun
• simile
• irony
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Example: "Both bees and buzzers buzz."

• metaphor
• onomatopoeia
• juxtaposition
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A comparison using "like" or "as"

• pun
• metaphor
• simile
• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D