Figurative Language

This coffee shop is an ice box!

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Personification

The sky misses the sun at night.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Imagery

She's drowning in a sea of grief.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

She's happy as a clam.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

I move fast like a cheetah on the Serengeti.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Alliteration

The sea lashed out in anger at the ships, unwilling to tolerate another battle.

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Imagery

I’ve told you a million times to clean your room!

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

Her head was spinning from all the new information.

• Personification

• Imagery

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison using "like" or "as"
• A comparison without using "like" or "as"
• A figure of speech in which the word imitates it's meaning.
• An extreme exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which of the following in an example of onomatopoeia?

• Boom!
• No!
• Yes!
• Go!

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5