Figurative Language

The pencil danced across the paper.

• Metaphor

• hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Life is like a box of chocolates.

• Simile

• Personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

It was so cold I saw a polar bears wearing jackets!

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Tommy is a bull in a china shop.

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

Gabby gulped down the Mountain Dew.

• hyperbole

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

Sally sold seashells by the seashore.

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

He told the actors to "break a leg" for good luck before the play began.

• metaphor

• idiom

• hyperbole

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Choose the correct idiom example.

• Letting the cat out of the bag.

• Telling a secret.

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Choose the correct personification example.

• The kite got stuck in the tree.

• The tree caught the kite

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3