Figurative Language

She hung her head like a dying flower.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Allusion

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

I have a real love and hate relationship with birthdays.

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

• Pun

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Zip! My dress was fastened and I was ready to go.

• Oxymoron

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Her singing was enough to raise the living dead.

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I am so hungry, I could eat a horse.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Pun

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

She was fairly certain that life was a fashion show.

• Oxymoron

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Her beauty is that of the Mona Lisa.

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The wicked witch of the west went her own way.

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

That guy was a tiger on the racetrack.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Idiom

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

He played football like a lion.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A