Figurative Language for ELLs

This type of figurative language is a comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as.

• Alliteration
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

This type of figurative language is a comparison of two unlike things by saying that one thing is another. 

• Metaphor
• Idiom
• Simile
• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

This type of figurative language is an exaggeration that cannot possibly be true (a huge exaggeration).

• Idiom
• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

_________________ is using words that appeal to your five senses to create a representation of ideas in your mind.

• Idiom
• Alliteration
• Imagery
• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Giving human qualities to non-human objects is this type of figurative language.

• Personification
• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia
• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

______________ is  a group of words whose meaning is different from the group of words literal meaning.

• Imagery
• Idiom
• Hyperbole
• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

This type of figurative language is words whose sounds suggest their meaning. 

• Idiom
• Personification
• Onomatopoeia
• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

______________ is the repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words.

• Hyperbole
• Alliteration
• Metaphor
• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

This picture contains an example of _______________.

• metaphor
• personification
• alliteration
• hyperbole & idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

"She wears her scars and wounds like jewels" is an example of a(n) _____.

• metaphor
• simile
• onomatopoeia
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5