Figurative Language- identifying examples

Wicked witches was wriggling worms to remove warts.

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

“Skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony.” - Brothers Grimm Snow White

• idiom

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

“Baa, baa, black sheep, Have you any wool?” - Mother Goose Baa, Baa, Black Sheep

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

“The moon was shining sulkily, Because she thought the sun, Had got no business to be there, After the day was done —"It's very rude of him," she said, "To come and spoil the fun." - Lewis Carroll The Walrus and The Carpenter

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

“Why, then, O brawling love, O loving hate, O anything of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health” - William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

“The little mermaid saw that the sea was stormy and that it was raining cats and dogs.”

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• oxymoron

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

“The night is a big black cat, The moon is her topaz eye, The stars are the mice she hunts at night, in the field of the sultry sky.” - G. Orr Clark The Night is the Big Black Cat

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• idiom

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

“As a newborn, Paul Bunyan could hollar so loud he scared all the fish out of the rivers and streams. All the local frogs started wearing earmuffs so they wouldn't go deaf when Paul screamed for his breakfast.” - S. E. Schlosser The Birth of Paul Bunyan

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A