Figurative Language

"Well now, one winter it was so cold that all the geese flew backward and all the fish moved south and even the snow turned blue." -Paul Bunyan

• Idiom

• Oxymoron

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

“Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get.” -Forrest Gump

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"But ooh, this time I'm telling you, I'm telling you
We are never ever ever getting back together"

-Taylor Swift

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Idiom

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

"But four hours later the fish was still swimming steadily out to sea"

-The Old Man and the Sea

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Personification

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

“Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.”—Mother to Son, Langston Hughes

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

• “You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes.” —Thriller by Michael Jackson 

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Idiom

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

"O brawling love! O loving hate!" - Shakespeare

• Oxymoron

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

"How they clang, and clash, and roar!
What a horror they outpour"

-"The Bells" Edgar Allen Poe

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D