Identifying types of figurative language

A comparison between two unlike things using the words “like” or “as.”

• Personification

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A comparison between two unlike things without using the words “like” or “as.”

• Metaphor
• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

The repeating of a word’s beginning sounds.

• rhyme

• Alliteration
• hyperbole

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Words that have the same ending sounds.

• alliteration

• Rhyming words
• hyperbole

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

An intentional exaggeration.

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Alliteration
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Words that represent sounds.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Giving a nonhuman thing human characteristics.

• Allegory
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A common figure of speech that does not make literal sense.You have to already know what it means.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• rhyme

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

You are as slow as a sloth!

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D