Figurative language

They’re as strong as an ox

• Hyperbole

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Why would you want the weather to be winter wind?

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Crash! The sound was unmistakable and I knew my shelf was broken

• alliteration

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

That homework took a million years!

• onomatopeoia

• simile

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Time is a thief

• metaphor

• simile

• imagery

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

I felt the wind rushing through my hair as I rolled down the window of the car, and suddenly I could smell the fresh cut grass outside.

• hyperbole

• imagery

• simile

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The teapot sang as the water heated

• imagery

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A simile is a comparison using _____ or as.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Personification gives _______ characteristics to things or animals

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Choose all the figurative language in this sentence:

When the big, bad bagel thief found me, I felt like a chicken because I yelled AHHHH.

• Metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4