Figurative Language

Her head was spinning from all of the new information.

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• personifcation

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

You're a couch potato.

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The sun greeted me this morning.

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

You are my sunshine.

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Brave as a lion.

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Time crawled as Tom sat in detention.

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Come and clean your closet, Carol!

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• alliteration

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

America is a melting pot.

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

My mouth was as dry as a bone.

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

My teeth were chattering as we waited in the freezing cold.

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5