Figurative Language - Bud, Not Buddy

The locomotive was hissing and spitting coal-black smoke into the sky.

• idiom

• hyperbole

• personification

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

We’ve got to hit the road in a bit, better hurry up and get some food in your belly.

• imagery

• idiom

• idiom

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

A gigantic smile split my face in half.

• idiom

• hyperbole

• pun

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

In her eyes, Todd’s mouth was a prayer book.

• personification

• metaphor

• idiom

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

The poor kids were on the road, all alone like dust in the wind

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

While the rest of the band was being a storm, Miss Thomas was the sun bursting through the thick, gray clouds

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

You’re going to have to pull your weight around here

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• idiom

• pun

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

You are not the sharpest knife in the drawer!

• idiom

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

Those weren’t pancakes your daughter served me, they were paincakes!

• hyperbole

• idiom

• pun

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

My daughter’s cooking was so bad that her fried chicken was known to have turned a chicken hawk into a vegetarian

• idiom

• simile

• imagery

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3