Figurative Language

An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true.

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

A comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

A reference to a person, place, or event from literature, sports, history, movies, or the arts.

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

A group of words whose collective meaning is quite different from their individual, literal meaning.

• Personification

• Allusion

• Idiom

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

A comparison of two unlike things by saying one thing is a dissimilar object or thing.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words.

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things.

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Allusion

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Words whose sounds suggest their meaning.

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Because Nick was late for work, he drove faster than a Jedi heading to the Death Star.

What is this an example of?

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Five funny frogs ferociously ate french fries.

What is this an example of?

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4