Figurative Language

Kathy arrived at the grocery store with an army of children.

• simile
• metaphor
• idiom
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

John’s answer to the problem was just a Band-Aid, not a solution.

• metaphor
• onomatopoeia
• idiom
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The promise between us was a delicate flower.

• idiom
• personification
• metphor
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Each blade of grass was a tiny bayonet pointed firmly at our bare feet.

• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole
• idiom
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

This job is the cancer of my dreams and aspirations.

• personification
• idiom
• hyperbole
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The handshake felt like warm laundry.

• metaphor
• simile
• idiom
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

They children ran like ripples through water.

• simile
• idiom
• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar.

• idiom
• hyperbole
• metaphor
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The cabin windows have grown blank as eyeballs of the dead.

• metaphor
• idiom
• simile
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Dance as dust before the sun, light of foot and unconfined.

• idiom
• hyperbole
• personification
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D