Figurative Language

The siblings fought like cats and dogs is an example of a/an

• Idiom
• Alliteration
• Metaphor
• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

The sun played hide and seek with the clouds in an example of a/an

• Idiom
• Simile
• Personification
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better.
This is an example of a/an 

• Metapohor
• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

You are a couch potato is an example of a/an 

• Metapohor
• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"Snake in the grass" is an example of a/an

• Simile
• Idiom
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

That costs an arm and a leg is an example of a/an

• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Idiom
• Metaphor

"I've told you a million times to clean your desk" is an example of a/an

• Hyperbole
• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Examples from Katy Perry's "Firework"
"Do you ever feel like a plastic bag, drifting through the wind.....Cause there's a spark in you...Cause baby you're a firework".   Identify the 2 examples of figurative language

• Simile and hyperbole
• Alliteration and onomatopoeia
• Simile and metaphor
• Metaphor and hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

In the Disney movie Toy Story, the toys can talk. This is an example of 

• Hyperbole
• Personification
• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

"Barking up the wrong tree" is an example of a/an 

• Simile
• Onomatopoeia
• Metaphor
• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B