Figurative Language Definition

When a word suggests or makes its own sound, it is ...

• onomatopoeia

• allusion

• alliteration

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Harry is as slow as a sloth when he is asked to clean his room.

• simile

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

That tree just grabbed the hat right off my head!

• oxymoron

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse.

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Before taking the stage, the crew told me to break a leg.

• simile

• alliteration

• idiom

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

When the initial consonant sound is repeated in a series of words, it is called ...

• oxymoron

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A phrase with words that contradict each other is ...

• alliteration

• allusion

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

When Mom noticed we had driven out of our area, she said, "Dorothy, we aren't in Kansas anymore."

• oxymoron

• allusion

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Dad is a monster when he can't find his tool box.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

As my hair dried, each strand went boing!

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• alliteration

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4