Figurative Language Practice

We trod the boards, Luvvy.

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

oompah oompah... toodle oodle

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

She looked like a large, fluffy egg.

• metaphor

• simile

• idiom

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

You'd have to be an explorer to find your way around in this fog.

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Her eyes were buttons, big, black, and shiny.

• personification

• idiom

• hyperbole

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Their faces opened, too, like empty shells...

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea.

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

...but Coraline could imagine its voice, dry as a dead fly on a windowsill in winter...

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Not under their own steam.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The air was alive with yellow wasps

• personification

• idiom

• hyperbole

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4