Figurative Language

the use of words that imitate sounds

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

• idiom

• alliteration

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

comparing two things using like or as

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

the repetition of beginning consonant sounds in words

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

comparing two things WITHOUT using like or as

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

an expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally.

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

an extreme exaggeration

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A