Figurative Language

This type of figurative language compares two things using like or as.

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

This type of figurative language compares two unlike things and DOES NOT use like or as.

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

This type of figurative language gives human qualities or traits to non-human things.

• simile

• idiom

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

This type of figurative language uses the repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of a word. This is similar to a tongue twister.

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

This type of figurative language is an extreme exaggeration.

• simile

• hyperbole

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

This type of figurative language represents a sound.

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

This type of figurative language is an expression or phrase that does not mean exactly what it says.

Hint:

For example, it may be raining cats and dogs today.

• idiom

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Figurative language is words that always mean exactly what they say.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

She is as fast as lightening

is an example of a ________________.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers is an example of __________________.

• simile

• personification

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4