Figurative Language (all)

Comparing two unlike things WITHOUT using the words "like" or "as"

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Comparing two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

An extreme exaggeration

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

A phrase that means something completely different than what it says

• alliteration

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The repetition of beginning sounds in multiple words next to each other

• alliteration

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Giving human characteristics or traits to non-human objects

• hyperbole

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Words that imitate sounds

• hyperbole

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Last night's thunderstorm made the tree branches bang against the window.

• hyperbole

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Mom made enough food to feed an entire army.

• hyperbole

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The falling snow was a white blanket that covered the entire neighborhood.

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D