Figurative Language Practice

What compares two things by saying that one thing is another? (Will not use "like" or "as")

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Which figurative language device means the following?

Sounds written out in word form.

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects, ideas, or animals.

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

What shows extreme exaggeration?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is a phrase that doesn't actually mean what it says?

• personification

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Today was like my birthday, Christmas, and the Fourth of July all rolled into one. 

• metaphor
• hyperbole
• simile
• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

We were stopped at that red light for an eternity.

• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole
• allusion
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Don't mind Mikey.  He's a grizzly bear until he's had his breakfast.

• personification
• onomatopoeia
• metaphor
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

After working for hours, Carol decided to call it a day and go inside for dinner.

• simile
• hyperbole
• allusion
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Whose horse is Hector happily riding?

• alliteration
• allusion
• hyperbole
• personifcation

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4