Flush Figurative Language

...any minute a dozen squad cars with screaming sirens will be racing down the street. What kind of figurative language do you see in this sentence?

• Personification

• Idiom

• Allusion

• Metaphor

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

"His smile was as crooked as his nose." What figurative language is being used?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Allusion

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

" 'She could play quarterback for the Miami Dolphins!' " is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What type of figurative language is "The curly hair on his bare chest was as shiny as the hair on his head"?

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What type of figurative language is the following?

"Abbey said, 'Listen, guys! You hear that?' Thwock-a-thwock-a-thwock..."

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"Bull was jogging to keep up--beet-face and sweating buckets." What type of figurative language is "sweating buckets"?

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What type of figurative language is this?

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

On page 198, it says, "we'd be roasted like crickets on a radiator." What type of figurative language is this?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What type of figurative language is used in the sentence: 'The wind whispered through the trees'?

• A) Metaphor

• B) Simile

• C) Personification

• D) Alliteration

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CCSS.L.6.5A

Identify the figurative language in the sentence: 'Her eyes were shining stars in the night sky.'

• A) Metaphor

• B) Simile

• C) Hyperbole

• D) Personification

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D