Figurative Language Examples Review

The eagle represents strength and freedom.

• oxymoron

• cliche

• symbol

• pun

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

He's as busy as a bee.

• cliche

• irony

• hyperbole

• metaphor

How now brown cow

• allitertion

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A boiled egg every morning is hard to beat.

• simile

• pun

• metaphor

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

She's as cool as a cucumber.

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

deafening silence

• pun

• alliteration

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

She's a snake and can't be trusted.

• assonance

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

He hit the books.

• idiom

• irony

• alliteration

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The dentist's child had false teeth.

• idiom

• mageryi

• irony

• symbol

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

My backpack weighs a ton!

• alliteration

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A