Figurative - Descriptive Langauge

The floorboards creaked as he crossed the dusty floor.

• imagery
• metaphor
• simile
• none

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

The sun blinded him when opened the cellar door.

• onomatopoeia
• none
• hyperbole
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Up out of that snarling, growling, slashing mass reared an old redbone hound.  

• metaphor
• onomatopoeia
• none
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

He stopped at the doorway to get a better grip on his suitcase and looked back at her.

• imagery
• none
• hyperbole
• personficiation

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

She wore high-heeled red shoes and a skirt so short Mrs. Natch would have croaked.

• simile
• none
• personfication
• imagery

You were small for your age even then, and you looked like a china doll with a white ribbon in your black hair and your cheeks red from excitement.

• none
• simile
• idiom
• metaphor

Mrs. Pennykettle clucked like a chicken.

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• none

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Kevin erased his answer and rewrote it, neatly this time, all the while keeping one eye on the clock

• imagery
• onomatopoeia
• none
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

His legs were like rubber bands, and his head swam with a thick, fuzzy feeling, while the boat rocked and rocked.

• onomatopoeia
• personification
• alliteration
• none

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

His parents had jobs, and Peter, now ten, felt he was too old for a babysitter.

• imagery
• personification
• idiom
• none

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5