Red Kayak Figurative Language

"I used to make a face that got her so excited she wheeled her arms and legs around like a windmill."

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Perfect idiot."

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

"...where we hung out a million times over the last thirteen years.."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Together, we waded through the ocean of yellow chicks..."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"...caught on a jagged piece of old piling that jutted out of water like a rotten tooth."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

"You must have worked like a dog, Brady!"

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

"...caught on a jagged piece of old piling that jutted out of water like a rotten tooth."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"He was wet to the bone.."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

"...his face as pale as a sheet..his lips as blue as a fresh bruise..."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Act naturally."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3