Figurative Language Worksheets

What is the author telling us with this figurative language?

• Her brother runs v

• Her brother is a turtle

• Her brother walks slowly

• Her brother doesn't know how to walk.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What can you tell about Jamie based on this metaphor?

• Jamie is mean

• Jamie has a fake heart

• Jamie love things that are gold

• Jamie is kind and caring.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What does Ms. Moore feel based on the hyperbole above?

• Ms. Moore does not like to work.

• Ms. Moore is overwhelmed by all of her work because there is a lot.

• Ms. Moore does not have a lot to do.

• Ms. Moore has over 100 million students

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What does this personification mean?

• The author likes photography

• The author thinks that they look good in pictures

• The author hates cameras

• The author has a nice camera.

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CCSS.L.6.5A

Match the following examples of figurative language, to their matching type.

• Simile

• "Whoose-Whoosh" went the wind.

• Idiom

• "His head was as big as a watermelon"

• Onomatopoeia

• "It's raining cats and dogs"

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Match the following examples of figurative language to their names:

• "The stars danced in the night sky."

• personification

• "I spilled the beans."

• Verbal Irony

• "I am so hungry I could eat a horse."

• allusion

• "Yeah I REALLY want to do more homework on a Friday!!"

• idiom

• "It will take forever to build that new school; you know Rome wasn't built in a day!"

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Which form of figurative language is this? Your voice is music to my ears.​ (a)  

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

This image along with the short poem is a _____.

d

metaphor

personification

hyperbole

simile

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Read the passage. Match the sentence to the correct figurative language.

• Each day brings adventure and joy

• Simile

• Brave blue creatures

• Hyperbole

• Happiness is friendship, wisdom and faith

• Personification

• They are busy like bees

• Alliteration

• The smallest village on the planet

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

Match

b

c

d

e

f

a

I am as slow as a snail.

She was a stinky pig

Eeek I screamed

Bears bake bodacious brownies

The cloud cried all morning

l could sleep all week

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4