Figurative Language

The pencil danced across the paper

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• symbol

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

Life is like a box of chocolates

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing jackets

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• symbol

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The cow yelled at the fly after it bit him

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• symbol

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

My dad is a bear without his coffee

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

• symbol

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Tommy is a bull in a china stop

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• symbol

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

I told you one million times to clean your room

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

• symbol

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is a simile? 

• Comparing two unlike things without  using  like and as
• Comparing two things in a text
• Comparing two unlike things using  like and as
• None of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is a metaphor?

• Comparing two things in a text
• Comparing two things using like and as
• An over exaggeration 
• Comparing two things without using like and as

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

It happened once in a blue moon is an example of a(n)...

• Idiom
• Hyperbole 
• Personification
• Alliteration 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B