Figurative Language Examples

a comparison of two unlike things without using the words “like” or “as”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Pun

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

a phrase that means something different than its literal meaning

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Pun

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a word that imitates the sound that it represents

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

a “humorous” substitution of words that sound alike but are different in meaning

• Idiom

• Pun

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

My coffee was as cold as the snow that was falling outside

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I paid an arm and a leg for my designer shoes that I bought this weekend.

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

I was very frustrated this morning due to the fact that my computer was running extremely slow.

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

His feet squished through the mud.

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Irony

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

I had to hurry home because grandma wanted her waffles.

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

I’ve told my student a billion times that they should always write their mailbox number and last name on their papers!

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A