Figurative Language

“The water made a sound like

kittens lapping.”

-from The Yearling

by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"The rain came down in long knitting needles."

-from National Velvet

by Enid Bagnold

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

“Some words are lazy:

Saunter, hazy...”

-from Feelings about Words

by Mary O'Neill

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

“On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray sculptured stones.”

-from Of Mice and Men

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

“All sorts of pleasant things happened about that time, for the new friendship flourished like grass in spring.”

-from Little Women

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"My knees were jelly."

-from The Lightning Thief

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

“It was the early afternoon of a sunshiny day with little winds playing hide-and-seek...”

-How Pearl Button was Kidnapped

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

“‘Ah, William, we’re weary of weather,’ said the sunflowers,

shining with dew.”

-Two Sunflowers Move in the Yellow Room

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

“Holmes looked at him thoughtfully like a master chess player who meditates his crowning move.”

-The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet.”

--from Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost

• hyperbole

• Idiom

• Alliteration

• repetition

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4