Figurative Language Practice

Comparing two things using like or as

• Metaphor

• Similie

• Idiom

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Extreme exaggeration

• Allusion

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Comparing two things without using like or as

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Simile

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Two contradictory words joined together.

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Personifcation

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

A commonly used phrase or expression whose literal meaning is different from its figurative meaning.

• Oxymoron

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Giving human qualities to inanimate objects.

• Hyperoble

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

The sun is as yellow as a lemon

• Metaphor

• Similie

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Break a leg.

• Idiom

• Allusion

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The clouds are a ball of cotton

• Idiom

• Similie

• Allusion

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I am so hungry that I could eat a horse!

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A