figures of Speech

What type of figurative language is the following sentence?

The dancer's hands fluttered like wings.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

The candle flame danced in the dark.

So, what type of the figurative language being used?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Pam was skinny enough to jump through a keyhole.

So, what type of figurative language is it?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Thunder grumbled and raindrops reported for duty.

So, what type of figurative language is it?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

She hung her head like a dying flower.

So, what type of figurative language is used?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

The sunflowers nodded in the wind.

So, what type of figurative language is used?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tanya never stops talking.

So, what type of figurative language is being used?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Her laughter was like a warm blanket or a familiar song.

What type of figurative language is being used?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

The train screamed down the tracks.

What type of figurative language is being used?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

What is a simile?

• a comparison using "like" or "as"

• a comparison, saying something IS something else.

• giving human qualities to something that is not a human.

• An over exaggeration that truly isn't believable.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3