Figurative Language

"Your dad's old school, like an ol' Chevette."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"His mind was a kaleidoscope of shock, pain, and disappointment."

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• metaphor

• alliteration

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Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"It was only yesterday that Dally had told Johnny and me that. But yesterday was years ago. A lifetime ago."

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"Huck's heart shot into his throat."

• idiom

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"David Donald Doo dreamed a dozen doughnuts and a duck-dog, too."

• idiom

• alliteration

• simile

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"The sun was already painting colors low in the sky."

• hyperbole

• simile

• idiom

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"There is a rat-a-tat-tat on the screen door."

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• alliteration

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"Dad was in such a hurry to follow her that he dropped the video camera, which broke into a million pieces."

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"[...] smoke lowering down from chimney pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snowflakes [...]."

• alliteration

• idiom

• metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"Pink is what red looks looks like when it kicks off its shoes and lets its hair down."

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• metaphor

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D