Figurative Language Review #2

I've got your back!

• You are following behind someone
• You grab someone from behind
• A way to tell someone you do not want to see them anymore
• A way to tell someone that you support them.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Once in a blue moon.

• Something that happens very rarely
• When someone refers to the first man on the moon
• Something that happens every time there is a full moon
• Something that happens when the moon is blue

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Hold your horses!

• Stay close to your family
• Do not be impatient
• Keep your money close to you, and beware of thieves
• Keep your dog away from me

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Piece of cake

• When you see food and it makes you hungry
• What you say when you want dessert
• What you say about someone who talks too much
• Simple. Easily done.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Hit the hay

• Get to the truth
• Get out of here!
• Go to sleep
• Work hard today

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Sleep on it

• Lay down on something to see if it is soft enough to sleep on
• To be lazy at one's job
• To be bored when someone is speaking
• Do not make a decision until you have slept and thought it over

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Something smells fishy

• When you do not trust somebody, or something is not what it appears to be
• When something in the air smells like fish
• When you feel ill and want to leave
• When food smells delicious

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Don't beat around the bush

• Get directly to your point
• You are making too much noise!
• Stop lying
• Stop spreading rumours

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Barking up the wrong tree

• When you are looking for birds in the wrong type of tree
• Someone has betrayed you.
• Looking in the wrong place. Accusing the wrong person.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

After playing football on the cold January day, his fingers were icicles.

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hot chocolate

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D