Figurative Language

Figurative language that uses the words “like” or “as” to compare two things

• Idiom

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

Figurative language that gives human traits to a nonhuman thing

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Personification

Figurative language that exaggerates

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Alliteration

What is the opposite of figurative language?

• Literal Language

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

Kisses are the flowers of love in bloom. 

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

The use of a word to describe or imitate a natural sound or the sound made by an object or an action.

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

A phrase that, when taken as a whole, has a meaning you wouldn't be able to deduce from the meanings of the individual words.

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5B

CCSS.RL.5.4

Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.L.5.5B

CCSS.RL.5.4

boing, gargle, clap, zap, and pitter-patter

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

She smelled like a rose.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4