Figurative Language

She hung her head like a dying flower.

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Onomatopoeia

There is a real love hate relationship developing between the two of them.

• Hyperbole
• Metaphor
• Oxymoron
• Onomatopoeia

There is a real love hate relationship developing between the two of them.

• Hyperbole
• Metaphor
• Oxymoron
• Onomatopoeia

Zip! My dress was fastened and I was finally ready for the wedding!

• Oxymoron
• Simile
  Onomatopoeia
• Hyperbole
  Hyperbole
• Onomatopoeia
  Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.K.1

I am so hungry I could eat a horse!

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Oxymoron
• Hyperbole

She was fairly certain that life was a fashion show.

• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Oxymoron
• Metaphor

I couldn't sleep. All I could hear was the drip, drip, drip of the faucet.

• Onomatopoeia
• Oxymoron
• Simile
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.K.1

CCSS.SL.K.2

The clouds were like ice-cream castles in the sky.

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Oxymoron

That couch is pretty ugly.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Oxymoron
• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.K.4A

CCSS.W.K.1

Kyle looked at the test with a stare as blank as a notebook.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Onomatopoeia