Figurative Language #1

When the words the author uses create an image or express an idea.

• Figurative Lanugage

• Literal Language

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

When the words mean exactly what the author wants to say.

• Literal Language

• Figurative Language

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

When two or more words begin with the same sound.

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A comparison that gives human qualities to inanimate objects.

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A comparison of unlike things that implies some sort of likeness.

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

A comparison of unlike things that uses “like” or “as”.

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Idiom

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Excessive exaggeration.

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Excessive exaggeration.

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

An expression which does not mean what it literally says.

• Simile

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

When two or more words begin with the same sound.

• Personification

• Simile

• Idiom

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4