Figurative Language Review

giving human qualities or traits to nonhuman things

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

a comparison of two unlike things, saying one is the other

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

an exaggeration that can’t be true

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

a group of words that does not mean their literal meaning

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

a comparison of two things using like or as

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

"The stars danced playfully in the moonlight sky" is an example of 

• Hyperbole
• Idiom
• Personification 

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

BANG! is an example of

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Your face is as smooth as a baby's bottom is an example of 

• Metaphor
• Simile 
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed is an example of

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Life is a winding road is an example of 

• simile
• personificaiton
• metaphor 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D