Peak Figurative Language

“And if I lived my mom would drop me off the wall herself.”

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Simile

• Personification

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

“To reach the top you must have resolve, muscles, skill, and… A FACE! Mine was anchored to that wall like a bolt, and a portion of it stayed there when I gathered enough resolve to tear it loose.”

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Simile

• Personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

“We’ve been tracking these tags for quite a while now. Looks like we caught the tagger red-handed.”

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Simile

• Personification

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

“They were six years old and looked up to the third “Pea” (me) like I was a god.”

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Simile

• Personification

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

“My father was the first to go…he was halfway down the hallway, tearing the tie off his neck like it was an anaconda.”

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Simile

• Personification

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

“He didn’t lay eyes on me until I was three months old,”

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Simile

• Personification

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

“For rock rats like them, this was like strolling across a level parking lot.”

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Simile

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

“I was so exhausted I wanted to check myself into the hospital as a patient.”

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Simile

• Personification

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

“It took him six vicious kicks to get it started, and when it finally caught, the motorcycle belched out a column of smoke so thick I thought it had burst into flames…”

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Simile

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

“If Zopa hadn’t grabbed my collar I would have jumped out of the back of the truck and killed him with my bare hands.”

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Simile

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A