Figurative Language

My nephew is a monkey! He climbs on everything. 

• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Euphemism
• Analogy

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

She dances like a chicken on hot coals. 

• Synedoche
• Simile
• Paradox
• Anaphora

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The chocoalte cake was calling my name

• Hyperbole
• Paradox
• Personification
• Anaphora

I've told you to clean your room a million times.

• Euphemism
• Analogy
• Hyperbole
• Alliterati

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

The guitar twanged as he thumped on it.

• Pun
• Ononmatipoeia
• Paradox
• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

His mother passed away last year.

• Hyperbole
• Irony
• Assonance
• Euphemism

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Try to light the fire by the ottoman over there.

• Synecdoche
• Assonance
• Analogy
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Deep down you are actually quite shallow.

• Paradox
• Anaphora
• Pun
• Hyperbole

Every man, every woman, every child, should be loved.

• Simile
• Anaphora
• Assonance
• Analogy

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The tall trees towered over the town.

• Pun
• Alliteration
• Oxymoron
• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4