Figurative Language

A comparison using "like" or "as"

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

words that create a picture in the reader's mind

• Imagery
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

a direct comparison of two things

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

a phrase that has a different meaning than what it says

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Giving human qualities to non-human things

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Simile
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Words that imitate sounds

• Alliteration

• Metaphor
• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

An over exaggeration

• Hyperbole
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Pairs contradictory words together in order to express a new meaning

• Idiom

• Metaphor
• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

A reference to a person, place, work of literature, historical event, etc.

• Idiom

• Allusion
• Simile
• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Repetition of initial consonant sounds

• Imagery

• Idiom

• Personification

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4