Figurative Language Monkey's Paw

"The words died away on his lips..."

• personification

• simile

• metaphore

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"...china candlestick, was throwing pulsating shadows on the ceiling and walls..."

• personification

• allusion

• simile

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

" A cold wind rushed up the staircase..."

• personification

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphore

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"Sounds like the Arabian Nights..."

• simile

• allusion

• metaphore

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"It twisted in my hand like a snake."

• allusion

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"he held a guilty grin in his thin gray beard."

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"A stair creaked..."

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"...with burning eyes..."

• simile

• allusion

• personification

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"A fine crash from the piano greeted the words..."

• personification or onomatopoeia

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3