Figurative language

“Tick, tock.” ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

“Danny strolled to the town common, sat on one of the benches in Teenytown and took one of the bottles out of the bag, looking down on it like Hamlet with Yorick's skull” ― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

• hyperbole

• personification

• metaphor

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

”A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open”.-Frank Zappa

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

“I like to walk in the woods and see what Mother Nature is wearing.” - Flannery O'Connor, Good Country People

• hyperbole

• allusion

• personification

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

“It's a piece of cake.”

• hyperbole

• idiom

• allusion

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5B

CCSS.L.4.5B

“I was quaking from head to foot, and could have hung my hat on my eyes, they stuck out so far.” - Mark Twain, Old Times on the Mississippi

• hyperbole

• personification

• allusion

• idiom

”Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary,” - Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven"

• metaphor

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

“Conscience is a man’s compass.” - Vincent Van Gogh

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

“ It’s raining cats and dogs.”

• personification

• idiom

• alliteration

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

“Hulga the whole while hollering like a half-slaughtered hog.” - Truman Capote, "Mojave"

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4