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.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

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

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Big bad bears buy bad bananas'

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

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

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

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

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Simile

"Boom, when the rocket soaring into space."

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Idiom

What is figurative language?

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

The candle flame danced in the dark.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

We welcomed all the wise men from the West.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Personification

An extreme exaggeration

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor