Review- Figurative Language

An extreme exaggeration

• simile

• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• hyperbole

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.5

a direct comparison of two unlike things, not using like or as

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia
• metaphor

• simile
• personification

Tags

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.5

a common saying with a meaning completely different than what the words literally means - an old saying or phrase that people use

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• simile
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.5

a comparison of two unlike things, using the words 'like' or 'as'

• simile

• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• metaphor
• personification

Tags

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.5

when a non-human object is given human qualities or emotions

• simile

• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• personification

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.6.5

The pencil danced across the paper.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Life is like a box of chocolates.

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing jackets!

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Tommy is a bull in a china shop.

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

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

• hyperbole

• idiom

• metophor

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B