Figgy Lang

“Cars come and go like frantic ants.”

• personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

“I tell her of my father’s great herd, and how they would graze each day, walking for miles, the sun in our bones, the grass whispering its shy music.”

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Definition: the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby words

• assonance

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Lisa's lizards were leaping on her lawnchair.

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A comparison of two ore more different things using like or as

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The rootbeer fizzed as I poured it into my cup.

• metaphoroeia

• simile

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

When a writer references a well-known person, place, thing, event, or famous work.

• Oxymoron

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

When a writer gives an animal or an object qualities or abilities that only a human can have?

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Uses extreme exaggeration.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Standing tall and frozen like statues in a vacant courtyard

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D