Figurative Language

When a writer compares two unlike things using "like" or "as"?

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

When a writer gives an animal or an object qualities or abilities that only a human can have?

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Comparing to unlike things by saying that one thing is another thing.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

When two or more words close together in a story or poem start with the same consonant sound.

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Using extreme exaggeration to make a point or show emphasis

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Bang, pop, gurgle, slap

• Idiom

• Oxymoron

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

It's raining cats and dogs!

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Oxymoron

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The sun smiled after the rain stopped. 

• Personification
• Idiom
• Hyperbole
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

She’s as tiny as a mouse.

• Alliteration
• Hyperbole
• Oxymoron
• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

When the pitcher finished nine innings, he was hungry enough to eat a horse.

• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Oxymoron
• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A