Figurative Language

The lost hiker looked like death when searchers located him.

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Your argument is a red herring, and I'm not falling for it.

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The trees of the field will clap their hands.

• Personification
• Metonymy
• Imagery
• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Lightning danced across the sky.

• Personification
• Metonymy
• Imagery
• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

• Hyperbole
• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia
• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The popular TV program features the 'living dead'.

• Symbolism
• Irony
• Oxymoron
• Synechdoche

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

It feels like it's 1000 degrees outside!

• Pun
• Hyperbole
• Anaphora
• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The bodybuilder has a Herculean physique.

• Anaphora
• Irony
• Allusion
• Understatement

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

It was clear from the madman's rant that he wasn't playing with a full deck.

• Pun
• Consonance
• Assonance
• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

The golden yellow sunlight filtered down through the pale new leaves on the oak trees, coming to rest on Jessica's brown toes that were splayed in the red Georgia mud.

• Symbolism
• Imagery
• Tautology
• Litotes

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5