Figurative Language

Children and dogs and houses bloom
like crowded flowers,
This is an example of: 

• metaphor
• simile
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

On the way up north to the cabin,
the sunshine sits in my lap all morning. 
This is an example of: 

• personification
• metaphor 
• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The river spills over rocks and whispers to me-
Kawishiwee...Kawishiwee-
and rushes on to anywhere.
This is an example of: 

• onomatopoeia
• personification
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The snow is a white blanket.
This is an example of: 

• personification 
• metaphor 
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

When the pitcher finished nine innings, he was hungry enough to eat a horse.

• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Oxymoron
• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

He raises red roosters for a living.

• hyperbole
• alliteration
• simile
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

the literal, dictionary definition of a word

• denotation
• connotation
• etymology
• synonym

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

the emotional and/or figurative meaning of a word

• denotation
• connotation
• etymology
• context clues

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4