Figurative Language Percy Jackson Lightning Thief

I paced the room feeling like ants were crawling around inside my shirt.

• personification

• Simile

• hyperbole

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

It's a thousand degrees in here!

• Personification

• Simile

• idiom

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

The valley marched all the way up to the water.

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Snap!

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Imagery

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

I just stood there, frozen in fear.

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

The bull-man bellowed in rage.

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

The roof had cracked open like an eggshell.

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

There was no horse or eagle on the beach, just lightning making false daylight and twenty-foot waves pounding the dunes like artillery.

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Mrs. Dodds was a sand castle in a power fan.

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

There was a blinding flash, a jaw-rattling boom!, and our car exploded.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4