Stargirl Final Test with Figurative Language

"...I was as proud as a first-grader with a star on his paper."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

"She laughed, and the desert sang."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

"I wanted to feel myself getting closer step by step, feel the tension rising like fizz in a soda bottle."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Her scream bent instrument dials like palms in a hurricane."

*There are two types!

• Personification, Simile

• Metaphor, Simile

• Personification, Metaphor

• Hyperbole, Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

"...and her freckles settled back onto the bridge of her nose..."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

"I couldn't see her freckles from the audience, but I imagined them dancing on her nose as she flicked her head this way and that."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

"She marched in, leading her girlfriends like an invading general."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

"She swirled like a dust devil. She marched stiffly like a wooden soldier"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

"...and yet, though I did not realize this until years later, he was grand marshal of our daily parade."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

"The sun lay down behind the mountains."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Imagery

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3