Heather Phillips and Figurative Language

A comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Giving something that is not a human human qualities

• hyperbole

• allusion

• oxymoron

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Big exaggeration, usually involves humor

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• idiom

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a phrase or expression whose meaning can't be understood from the ordinary meanings of the words in it

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

A reference to a famous person, place, or event

• oxymoron

• simile

• alliteration

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

A direct comparison between two unlike things.

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The repetition of a sound in a sentence or a series of sentences

• alliteration

• allusion

• idiom

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (beside each other)

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

A word that mimics a sound

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The crash was a pretty ugly sight to see.

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A