Figurative Language Review

The play was an epic fail.

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

• pun

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

The snow was a white blanket of beauty.

• metaphor and allusion

• simile and alliteration

• metaphor and alliteration

• idiom and onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Her scrambled eggs are eggcellent!

• onomatopoeia

• pun

• oxymoron

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

I heard the last piece of pizza calling my name.

• alliteration and personification

• oxymoron and personification

• metaphor and simile

• hyperbole and metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

An alligator in a vest is an investigator.

• oxymoron

• personification

• pun

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

She had a photographic memory but couldn't develop it.

• oxymoron

• assonance

• pun

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Kandi caught a catfish.

• metaphor

• alliteration

• oxymoron

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

I tried my hardest on the test, but I still failed.

• oxymoron

• personification

• paradox

• metaphor

Mrs. Faulkner gave us mountains of homework.

• personification

• paradox

• simile

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Sheep should sleep in a shed.

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4