figures of speech

Her life was a rainbow of experiences.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

She was so scared that she turned as white as a ghost.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Betsy baked better bread with bananas, blueberries, and butter

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

She was so hungry she could eat a horse

• hyperbole

• personification

• metonymy

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

i was scared when i heard the tic-toc of the clock on midnight.

• assonance

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

"i can read you like a magazine"

• irony

• oxymoron

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

your eyes whispered, "have we met?"

• simile

• irony

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

"And he's long gone when he's next to me"

• alliteration

• oxymoron

• metonymy

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Cause even the stars they burn some even fall to the earth.

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• metonymy

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"The pink hair kills the demons"

• metonymy

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5