Figurative Language

A comparison of two unlike things that have something in common.

Uses LIKE or AS.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Q. A comparison of two unlike things that have something in common.

NO like or as.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Q. Giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Q. An over exaggeration.

ex. I jumped so high I touched the sky.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A term which features two words which appear to contradict each other but make sense of the situation overall.

Ex. He is such a big baby.

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

• personification

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

It is a phrase that bears no literal meaning to the situation.

Example: Once in a blue moon.

Meaning: Rarely happens

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

• personification

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What type of figurative language is being used in the sentence below?

It took me a hundred years to finish all of my homework last night.

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What type of figurative language is being used in the sentence below?

The students were as busy as bees as they worked to finish their final project for the school year.

• metaphor

• simile

• oxymoron

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"The city was a jungle" is an example of what?

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

hat type of figurative language is being used in the sentence below?

The heater yelled as it came on for the first time for the winter.

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A