Figurative Language 2

“At midnight I went on deck, and to my mate’s great surprise put the ship round on the other tack. His terrible whiskers flitted round me in silent criticism.”

• simile

• synecdoche

• antithesis

• paradox

“To err is human; to forgive divine.”

• antithesis

• oxymoron

• paradox

• metonymy

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

“We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shallfight in the hills. We shall never surrender.”

• parallelism

• metonymy

• antithesis

• oxymoron

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

“All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.”

• parallelism

• paradox

• metonymy

• hyperbole

“Neptune’s ocean wash this blood

Clean from my hand? No. This my hand will rather

The multitudinous seas incarnadine,

Making the green one red.”

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• paradox

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

“… impressions poured in upon her of those two men, and to follow her thought was like following a voice which speaks too quickly to be taken down by one’s pencil…"

• simile

• metaphor

• synecdoche

• personification

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Beautiful tyrant! fiond angelical!

Dove-feather’d raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!

Despised substance of divinest show!

Just opposite to what thou justly seem’st;

A damned saint, an honourable villain!

• oxymoron

• paradox

• metaphor

• antithesis

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

"I'm mighty glad Georgia waited 'til after Christmas before it seceded."

• metonymy

• understatement

• oxymoron

• antithesis

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

The three keys to purchasing real estate: location, location, location.

• repetition

• simile

• metonymy

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

“When well-appareled April on the heel

Of limping winter treads.”

• personification

• metonymy

• antithesis

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5