English 11 Figurative Language Review

Achilles’ heel

• Allusion

• Paradox

• Alliteration

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Life is a highway

• Simile

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Life is like a box of chocolates

• Paradox

• Simile

• Under Statement

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A blinking red light from the truck’s turn-signal illuminated our darkened home

• Hyperbole

• Paradox

• Metaphor

• Sensory Detail

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Paradox

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Under Statement

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A person works hard for decades, spending little to save money for retirement. The week before retiring, the person unexpectedly has a massive heart attack and dies.

• Simile

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Break a leg!

• Allusion

• Idiom

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Lazy lizards like lounging on the land.

• Idiom

• Paradox

• Allusion

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

This is the beginning of the end.

• Paradox

• Hyperbole

• Under Statement

• Sensory Detail