Identifying Language Features

Lightning danced across the sky.

• metaphor
• personification
• simile
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Her eyes were as big as saucers.

• simile
• personification
• metaphor
• exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

He had a heart of stone.

• metaphor
• personification
• pun
• euphemism

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Early bird gets the worm

• Cliche
• Satire
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole

That's ratchet!

• colloquialism
• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

The classroom was filled with a deafening silence.

• oxymoron
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Hear the mellow wedding bells

• alliteration
• assonance
• hyperbole
• euphemism

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

"How'd you get the new phone?"
"It just fell off the back of a truck."

• euphemism
• paradox
• metaphor
• imperative

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

As old as the ark

• allusion
• metaphor
• personification
• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

The best way to communicate with fish is to drop them a line. 

• metaphor
• personification
• pun
• cliche

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A