Similes and Metaphors

The faces at the street crossings shine like a row of eggs on a pantry shelf.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

He overwhelmed the boxer with avalanches of punches.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• All of the above

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

The musicians spun great webs of sound.

• Simile

• Bildungsroman

• Bibliomancy

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

A hundred miles of landscape spread before me like a fan.

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Poem

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

We were crushed by the hammer of sunlight.

• The STAAR Test

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Fear fell from us like steel armor.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

The night is as cold as a sharp sword.

• Paradox

• Irony

• Metaphor

• Simile

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Her voice was like water bubbling from a silver.

• Euphemism

• Satire

• Simile

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

Children are the most beautiful flowers of all.

• Metaphor

• Point of View

• Simile

• English

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

There I waited, crouched behind my pointed wall of words.

• Both a simile and metaphor

• Simile

• Metaphor

• None of the above

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4