Figurative Language

The pencil trudged stubbornly across the paper.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Life is like a box of chocolates

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

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

• idiom

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Watching my older brother eat dinner after football practice, you'd think he just suffered through The Great Depression.

• metaphor

• idiom

• allusion

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The cow yelled at the fly after it bit him

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

My dad is a bear without his coffee

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I told you one million times to clean your room

• hyperbole

• idiom

• metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The west wind dances down the road.

• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Idiom
• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

A train is a dragon that roars through the dark.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The bodybuilder would make Hercules jealous.

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Allusion

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4