Figurative Language

The new student is as tall as a giraffe!

• Metaphor

• Similie

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The classroom was a zoo!

• Idiom

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which figurative language gives objects human characteristics?

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

I have told you a million times to wash the dishes.

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Which figurative language has a non-literal meaning?

• Idiom

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Which figurative language involves referencing another text?

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The chair squeaked when I sat down.

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

• Simile

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

It's raining cats and dogs!

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Which figurative language compares two things using like or as?

• Personification

• Simile

• Allusion

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Which figurative language compares two things that are not alike?

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4