Figurative Language

1.) As Shelia walked home from school, the wind gripped her in its frigid fingertips.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

2.) You glow in my heart like the flames of uncounted candles.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

3.) A year has gone as the tortoise goes, heavy and slow.

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

4.) Christmas will never come.

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

5.) The engine hacked and coughed as Kevin turned the key, but the old car wouldn’t start.

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

6.) My heart is a nest that had song-birds in it.

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

7.) Everyone knows that.

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

8.) The purple jars of night spill.

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

9.) Though Dante tried to not to break the rules of his diet, the donut shop called to him at night.

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

10.) The ship of my soul is rolling to port at last.

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D