Figurative Language

What type of figurative language compares two unlike things WITHOUT the use of "like" or "as?"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

My father was the sun and the moon to me.

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which type of figurative language gives human qualities to something nonhuman.

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

She loved him so much that her heart felt like it could burst.

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Which sentence below uses onomatopoeia?

• The tree angrily shook her branches.

• Her eyes are diamonds in the night.

• She was awfully nice to us yesterday.

• The car zoomed right past us.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Stop beating around the bush and tell me how you really feel!

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Which sentence uses an idiom?

• My mom ordered the jumbo shrimp.

• That is the last straw.

• Steve is as fierce as a lion.

• Terry told Tom to text him later.

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

The sunflowers nodded their yellow heads.

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

Jacob and Sara have a love hate relationship.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Barry bounced the basketball all the way home.

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4