Slam, Dunk, Hook Figurative Language Practice

Mercury's Insignia is an example of

• metaphor

• allusion

• hyperbole

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"Swish" is an example of

• personification

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"Swish of strings like silk" is an example of

• assonance

• idiom

• alliteration

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"Poised in midair
Like storybook sea monsters" is an example of

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

“Corkscrew / Up & dunk” and “sprung,” is an example of

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• imagery

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"In the roundhouse
Labyrinth our bodies
Created" is an example of

• personification

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"He played nonstop all day" is an example of

• synonym

• alliteration

• idiom

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4