Figurative Language

What is an extreme exaggeration?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A comparing two unlike things using like or as

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Using human qualities or characteristics to describe non-human things

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Using the same initial letter sound throughout a sentence

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Comparing two unlike things with an explanation

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Words that sound like the noise they make

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Personificiation

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

This box is so heavy it weighs a ton!

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Sam smells stinky skunks.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The snow is a white blanket.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The bees buzzed around my head.

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4