8th Grade Figurative Language

The clouds were as soft as cotton.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

My new cell phone cost an arm and a leg.

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The stars winked in the night sky.

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

My dad is a pilot but he is afraid of heights.

• Irony

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

Mrs. Moore's classroom was a zoo.

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Oxymoron

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

Sarah smells something stinky in the stairwell.

• Simile

• Irony

• Alliteration

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

The car went boom as it backfired.

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

When I looked out the window, I saw it was raining cats and dogs.

• Idiom

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

My favorite food to eat is jumbo shrimp.

• Irony

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

The sun smiled down on us as we walked through the park.

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4