Figurative Language Terms & Examples

a comparison of two things using the words “like” or “as” 

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

giving human qualities to animals or inanimate objects

• Simile
• Metaphor

• Personification
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

an extreme exaggeration

• Hyperbole
• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

a comparison of two unlike things without using the words “like” or “as”

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

a word that imitates the sound that it represents

• Idiom
• Metaphor
• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Her eyes were diamonds; always bright and sparkling!

• Metaphor
• Simile

• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

My coffee was as cold as the snow that was falling outside

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I was very frustrated this morning due to the fact that my computer was running extremely slow.

• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Onomatopoeia
• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

His feet squished through the mud.

• Onomatopoeia
• Hyperbole
• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

I’ve told my student a billion times that they should always write their mailbox number and last name on their papers!

• Onomatopoeia
• Hyperbole
• Alliteration
• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A