Basic Figurative Language Practice #2

Let it be forgotten as a flower is forgotten,

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Your hand was honey-comb to heal,
Your voice a web to bind.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The brooks laugh louder when I come,
The breezes madder play.

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

There are some, like stars, that dwell apart,
In a fellowless firmament;

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

And there will I keep you forever,   
Yes, forever and a day,
Till the walls shall crumble to ruin,   
And molder in dust away!

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Freedom weeps, Wrong rules the land, and waiting Justice sleeps

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

1. The handshake felt like warm laundry.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

The painted leaves are strewn  

Along the winding way.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The graveyard of my soul is filled with flowers, so that I may stroll in meditation, at my ease.

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

1. I can smell pizza from a mile away.

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A