Figurative Language

This school is an asylum.

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

My stomach did a backflip.

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.6.5A

I bolted out the door like a horse leaving the gate for a race.

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I waited a million years for my ride to get to the house.

• alliteration
• repetition
• idiom
• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

My mom said never to use the word hate unless I meant it. I HATED them!

• alliteration
• repetition
• idiom
• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

I wouldn't worry wacky worries unless it was something to really worry about.

• alliteration
• repetition
• idiom
• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

She wasn't exactly running in the same circles as me.

• alliteration
• repetition
• idiom
• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

The rope SNAPPED in half, and the panic in the child's face was evident.

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Delaney is the sun in my life; she means everything to me.

• Delaney is yellow.
• Delaney is standing on the roof.
• Delaney is important to me.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I'm dying to see that movie.

• I can wait a little longer.
• I don't want to see the movie.
• I'm excited about seeing the movie.

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A