Figurative Language and Sound Devices by Examples

Love is a battlefield.

• simile

• imagery

• metaphor

• euphemism

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

My father is as sharp as a pin.

• oxymoron

• paradox

• simile

• allusion

Your cat needs to be put to sleep.

• euphemism

• oxymoron

• irony

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

This is the beginning of the end.

• allusion

• metaphor

• paradox

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

These flowers are beautiful! You are quite the Romeo, aren't you?

• hyperbole

• dramatic irony

• metaphor

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

In Romeo and Juliet, we watch as Romeo, thinking Juliet is dead, kills himself. Yet the audiences knows that she is not dead.

• verbal irony

• dramatic irony

• situational irony

• pun

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

I really hate it when people make grammatical errors in there writing.

• verbal irony

• situational irony

• assonance

• pun

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

This steak is as tender and delicious as an old boot.

• verbal irony

• situational irony

• pun

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

I am dying to try that new game.

• hyperbole

• personification

• pun

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Gloves are extremely handy.

• pun

• personification

• alliteration

• situational irony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A