HOMS Figurative Language

Identify the literary device (aka figurative language) underlined in the following sentence:

Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Identify the literary device (aka figurative language) underlined in the following sentence:

The taxi door opened like a waiter's arm.

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• simile

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Identify the literary device (aka figurative language) underlined in the following sentence:

My papa's hair is like a broom, all up in the air. And me, my hair is lazy. It never obeys barrettes or bands.

• idiom

• metaphor

• personification

• sensory details

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Identify the literary device (aka figurative language) underlined in the following sentence:

The boys and girls live in seperate worlds.

• idiom

• sensory details

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Identify the literary device (aka figurative language) underlined in the following sentence:

Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in.

• hyperbole

• sensory details

• metaphor

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Identify the literary device (aka figurative language) underlined in the following sentence:

"The mother's feet, plump and polite, descended like white pigeons from the sea of pillow, across the linoleum roses, down down the wooden stairs..."

• idiom

• alliteration

• sensory details

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Identify the literary device (aka figurative language) underlined in the following sentence:

Push, pull. Push, pull. POOF!

• alliteration

• metaphor

• repetition

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Identify the literary device (aka figurative language) underlined in the following sentence:

"Up, up up the stairs she went with the baby boy in a blue blanket, the man carrying her suitcases..."

• onomatopoeia

• repetition

• metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3