Figurative Language

What type of figurative language is shown?
The flower hugged the earth after being blown over by the storm.

• personification
• alliteration
• metaphor
• simile

What type of figurative language is shown?
Her long hair is an ocean of waves.

• personification
• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole
• metaphor

What type of figurative language is shown?
Tracy was really feeling down in the dumps.

• personification
• idiom
• hyperbole
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What type of figurative language is shown?
Her eyes were as blue as the ocean.

• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What type of figurative language is shown?
Pansy pranced playfully around the playground.

• hyperbole
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• Idiom

What type of figurative language is shown?
The runner ran like a cheetah in the race.

• metaphor
• Personification
• simile
• hyperbole

What type of figurative language is shown?
She was so sad that all the tears she cried filled up a lake.

• hyperbole
• Simile
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia

What type of figurative language is shown?
The thunder boomed in the storm.

• Metaphor
• personification
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia

What is personification?

• comparing two things using like or as
• giving human traits to objects or ideas
• a dramatic exaggeration
• a word that resembles the sound it represents

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is alliteration?

• giving human traits to objects or ideas
• a phrase that means something else than what it says
• repeating the same initial sound in several words
• a contradictory phrase

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3