Figurative Language Practice

When the Wind is low, and the sea is soft, and the heat-lightning plays

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Your beauty was a web of frail delight

• Simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

Now that I am without you, all is desolate; All that was once so beautiful is dead

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

I could grow very still like an old stone on a hill

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

The repetition of consonant sounds, regardless of location, is...

• consonance
• assonance
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

An extreme exaggeration used for effect

• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

My feet are killing me!

• alliteration
• hyperbole
• idiom
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

BAM! The door shut behind me. This is an example of ......

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The sad student sat silently in the room. This is an example of ......

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

I'm so tired I could sleep for days!

• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A