Figurative Language

"As I stood in the field, the grass whispering its shy music.”

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

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The boy was standing like a statue on the sidewalk in everyone's way.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.6.3

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Joel and Ellie looked around only to notice they were all alone.

• Alliteration

• Oxymoron

• Simile

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Make sure you tell you're friends in the play to break a leg tonight!

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

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Rachel is a walking encyclopedia.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Idiom

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

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When the pitcher finished nine innings, he was hungry enough to eat a horse.

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Simile

• Metaphor

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Happy Harry handles handsprings horribly.

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is hyperbole?

• Repetition of the same sound

• Extreme exaggeration

• Giving human traits to animal or non-living things

• Comparing two things without like or as

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"Joe had no idea when his boss asked to see him that he was going to be let go."

• allusion

• idiom

• hyperbole

• Euphemism

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Bang, pop, gurgle, slap

• Idiom

• Oxymoron

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3