Grade 4 Figure of Speech

I can smell your scent for miles.

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

I am rock, I am an island.

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Readings is as easy as ABC.

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Mike's microphone made much music.

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Metonymy

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The actor vroomed his motorbike across people watching him.

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Assonance

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

I am so busy. I have a million things to do.

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Euphemism

• Apostrophe

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

James ran like a cheetah.

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

The camel is the ship of the desert.

• Idiom

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Man proposes, God disposes.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Antithesis

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Their brilliant son who failed his college exam.

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A