Figurative Language (2023)

What compares two things using the words "like" or "as."

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What compares two things by stating that one thing IS another?

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What is the repetition of the first consonant sounds in several words?

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is an outrageous exaggeration that emphasizes a point?

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is the use of words that sound like their meaning, or words that mimic sounds?

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What gives human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or ideas?

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Your eyes are like pools of blue.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The chair groaned when the man sat on it.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Mean Meghan might make me mad.

• oxymoron

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Penn Webb talks a mile a minute!

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A