Figurative Language

Figure of speech that makes a reference to something else, such as books, movies, places, or pop culture

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Makes a comparison between two unrelated things by stating that one thing is another thing

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A phrase that has gained meaning that is different than the literal meaning of the words

• Idiom

• Simile

• Personification

• Onomatopeia

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Makes a comparison using the words "like" or "as"

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

An exaggeration that cannot possible be true, used to emphasize something

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

When human characteristics are given to something that is not human

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

When the beginning sound of words are repeated close together

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Simile

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A word that imitates the sound of the object or action it refers to

• Personification

• Simile

• Allusion

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Her messy room was a disaster zone

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• A

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I will not have you, in one night, besmirching that name by behaving like a babbling, bumbling band of baboons

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Allusion

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4