Figurative Language

Giving human qualities to nonhuman things is 

• idiom
• hyperbole
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A comparison of two unlike things using the words 'like' or 'as' is called

• personification
• simile
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Words that imitate sounds

• metaphor
• onomatopeia
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true

• hyperbole
• personification
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

This is a picture of an exaggeration that cannot possibly be true

• hyperbole
• allusion
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

This is a picture of the cloud having human qualities...remember the cloud isn't human. What word is this?

• hyperbole
• personification
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Simile or Metaphor?
My sister is like an angel in my life.

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What does this mean?
When my great uncles drives, he is as slow as a turtle. 

• very slow
• moves pretty quickly
• still beats everyone
• he's super fast

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

"The Flash is fast like lightning." This is an example of...

• personification
• alliteration
• simile
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Fall Fridays feel fantastic. 

• onomatopoeia
• simile
• alliteration
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4