Identifying Figurative Language

1. A library is like an island.

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Refrain

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

2. The school bell told us it was time to go to our next class.

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

3. Time is money.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Refrain

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

4. That is the cutest cat in the entire world.

• Refrain

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

5. The snow is a white blanket.

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Refrain

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

6. That song is the worst thing I've ever heard.

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Refrain

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

7. Can you see that star is winking at you?

• Hyperbole

• Refrain

• Personification

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

8. He was as brave as a lion.

• Hyperbole

• Refrain

• Metaphor

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

9. Over the mountains and under the sun,

Silence was heard throughout.

Over the mountains and under the sun,

You couldn't hear a shout.

• Refrain

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

10. This homework assignment is going to take me a million years to finish.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A