Analyzing Figurative Language

a comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

a comparison of one thing as if it were another

• alliteration
• simile
• metaphor
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

giving human characteristics to a nonhuman subject

• simile
• alliteration
• metaphor
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Jack's hair and beard are bright blond. 

• literal language is used
• figurative language is used

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

When he heard the scream, claws of fear tore at his scalp.

• literal language
• figurative language

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.L.7.5D

CCSS.RL.7.4

The giraffe nibbled at the leaves on the tree.

• literal language
• figurative language

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Dead on her feet, Marla collapsed onto the worn bus seat, glad her 24 hour shift was finally over.

• literal language
• figurative language

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

The tornado played with the car, picking it up in its jaws, then dropping it.

• literal laguage
• figurative language

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.L.7.5D

CCSS.RL.7.4

The shark's fin cut the water like a razor slashing silk.

• literal language
• figurative language

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

the repeated consonant sounds at the beginnings of words
(breeze blew briskly)

• alliteration
• consonance
• assonance
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4