Figurative Language

Giving human qualities to objects or animals

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Words or phrases that are not taken literally

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Extreme exaggeration

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A word that describes or mimics a sound

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

The use of same beginning consonant sound in a group of words

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

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 using "like" or "as"

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Using words that appeal to the 5 senses

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Imagery

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Idiom

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D