6th Grade Figurative Language

The leaves danced in the wind.

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

They have truckloads of money.

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Those purple pigs are pretty.

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• metaphor

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The rocket whooshed in the sky.

• simile

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Her eyes were darting torches.

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

This cake is as dry as a bone.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I nearly died of embarrassment.

• idiom

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

My computer throws a tantrum at least once a day.

• idiom

• personification

• allusion

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

She sells seashells down by the seashore.

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The dish clattered against the floor tiles.

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5