Figurative Language

The pencil danced across the paper

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• symbol

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Life is like a box of chocolates

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing jackets

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• symbol

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

The cow yelled at the fly after it bit him

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• symbol

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Tommy is a bull in a china stop

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• symbol

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

I told you one million times to clean your room

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

• symbol

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

My husband bought me roses for Valentines Day

• simile

• personification

• symbol

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

My mom is as smart as a dictionary

• metaphor

• alliteration

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

A comparison of two unlike things using LIKE or AS.

• hyperbole

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

A comparison of two unlike things stating that one thing IS the other.

• idiom

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4