Figurative Language Study Guide

A comparison of two things when the writer says that something is actually something else.

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• idioms

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A huge exaggeration

• idiom
• hyperbole
• personification
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A comparison of two thing using the words “like” or “as”

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Giving an object that is not human some personal or human characteristics

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Words that say the sound they make (buzz, hiss)

• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole
• idiom
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

When several words begin with the same sound.

• onomatopoeia
• personification
• alliteration
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

A figure of speech whose meaning differs from the literal meaning of its words (Zip your lip).

• alliteration
• hyperbole
• metaphor
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

The new sweater was as soft as a lamb.

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

That policeman was an angel.

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Jane was jumping to jet across the country.

• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4