Figurative Language Examples Review

Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore.

• Alliteration

• Analogy

• Cliche'

• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

There's plenty of fish in the sea!

• Alliteration

• Analogy

• Cliche'

• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other word would smell as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called"

• Alliteration

• Analogy

• Cliche'

• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Adam the ant ate an apple.

• Alliteration

• Analogy

• Cliche'

• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

He is a real Einstein.

• Allusion

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

I walked a million miles today.

• Allusion

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

She is under the weather today.

• Allusion

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

After the long run, he collapsed in the grass with tired and burning muscles. The grass tickled his skin and sweat cooled on his brow.

• Allusion

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

He is a couch potato. All he does is sit around and watch tv all day.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personfication

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Her eyes are as blue as the ocean.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personfication

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A