Figurative Language

Expressions used for for descriptive or rhetorical effect that are not literally true but that express some truth beyond the literal level.

• figurative language

• extended metaphor

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

a metaphor that compares two seemingly unlike things in various ways through a paragraph, a stanza, or an entire literary work.

• extended metaphor

• figurative language

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

a figure of speech that compares two seemingly unlike things but implies a comparison instead of stating it directly with the words like or as.

• extended metaphor

• figurative language

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

a figure of speech in which an animal, an object, a force of nature, or an idea is given human form or qualities.

• extended metaphor

• figurative language

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

a figure of speech that uses the words like or as to compare two seemingly unlike things.

• extended metaphor

• figurative language

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D