Figurative Language

"The wind stood up and gave a shout"

• metaphor
• personification
• imagery
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Danny's room is a pig-sty.

• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"Blazing in gold and quenching in purple,"

• metaphor
• consonance
• imagery
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"There was a Young Lady whose nose, Was so long that it reached to her toes;"

• consonance
• hyperbole
• alliteration
• repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"Moses supposes his toeses are roses"

• repetition
• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

I dropped my sock in the thick, sticky mud.

• consonance
• metaphor
• personification
• repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

The crazy car is colorful.

• simile
• alliteration
• personification
• repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

"The firework exploded in the air, making a big BOOM in the air."
is an example of 

• Personification
• Onomatopoeia
• Metaphor
• All of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"I am as hungry as a bear!" The kind of figurative language used here is _______ 

• simile and personification
• personification
• simile
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is an idiom?

• a pharse that means something else than what it says
• comparing two things using like or as
• an extreme exageration
• giving human traits to objects or ideas

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.5