Figurative Language

Children and dogs and houses bloom
like crowded flowers,
This is an example of: 

• metaphor
• simile
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Dusk prepares for the great
celebration of night.
This is an example of: 

• personification 
• metaphor 
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

The snow is a white blanket.
This is an example of: 

• personification 
• metaphor 
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Gaslights bloomed on the new streets
like flowers, and lit with a "Pop!" at night.
This has examples of: 

• simile and onomatopoeia
• metaphor and simile
• personification and simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

“It went zip when it moved and bop when it stopped,
And whirr when it stood still.
I never knew just what it was and I guess I never will.”
This has examples of: 

• onomatopoeia
• metaphor
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

“Tick, tock.” ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

”A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open”.-Frank Zappa

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

“It's a piece of cake.”

• hyperbole

• idiom

• allusion

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

”Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary,” - Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven"

• metaphor

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

“Conscience is a man’s compass.” - Vincent Van Gogh

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D