Guess the Figurative Language!

"The animal on the side of the road was as dead as a doorknob"

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"The kid I saw at school today was a tall Mountain."

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Big bad bears buy bad bananas'

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"I waited in in line for 5 days to go grocery shopping."

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

It was raining cats and dogs, so I could not go to school

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

"Boom, when the rocket soaring into space."

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is figurative language?

• Language that means more than what the words say.
• Language that means just what the words say.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

The candle flame danced in the dark.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

We welcomed all the wise men from the West.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

An extreme exaggeration

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A