Figurative Language

A comparison using two unlike things using "like" or "as" is...

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

An exaggeration that cannot be true is...

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Giving objects or animals that aren't human personalities and actions of humans

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A direct comparison of two unlike things...

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

A word that is invented to imitate real sound is called...

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What type of figurative language is used in this sentence? The classroom was a zoo.

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What type of figurative language is used in this sentence? Lighting danced across the sky.

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

What type of figurative language is used in this sentence? You were as brave as a lion.

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What type of figurative language is used in this sentence? I have a million things to do today.

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

What type of figurative language is used in the sentence? Smash! The cup fell off the table.

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3