Figurative Language and Nuances

The snow danced on my cheeks as it fell from the sky.

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

The sleigh was as quick as lightning

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

I shivered in the storm for 200 years.

• hyberbole

• metatphor

• idiom

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Eight eleves snick into every present on Evergreen Street.

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

When I dumped candy from my sticking, I was a pig in mud.

• alliteration

• simile

• idiom

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

When I knocked over the tree, my mom turned all shades of red.

• idiom

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

The icicles dripped through my mittens covered hands.

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• idiom

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

His present stacked sky-high!

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Colourful candy canes blanketed the Christmas tree.

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Thud, went the sleigh as it landed on our roof.

• idiom

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• alleritation

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5