Figurative Language #1

"Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"The late May sky was a brilliant dare-you-to-wink blue, and the cheek of the hillside wore a three-day growth of green."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"Fatigue was like a toothache in her bones."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

"Clatter and clack, great shuddering moans, groans, creaks, and rattles."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

"I thought about my beautiful dreams and wondered if they would drift away just like those lovely soap bubbles. "

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

"The characters danced before my eyes, growing larger and redder, almost swallowing me up."

• Simile

• Personification

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"The darkness gathered until I could not see my book."

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

"Even I don't have a clear memory of him, so it doesn't have to matter to you at all. You can still hold your heads up. "

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"The gate of the fence was locked like a jail yard, but Mrs. Bedlow was not deterred."

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

"The word whished back and forth across the circle like a shuttle in a race."

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4