Figurative Language

"The city was a jungle." is an example of what type of figurative language?

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What type of figurative language is shown?
Pansy pranced playfully around the playground.

• hyperbole
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

What type of figurative language is shown?
The flower hugged the earth after being blown over by the storm.

• personification
• alliteration
• metaphor
• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What type of figurative language is shown?
That freshly baked apple pie looks awfully good.

• hyperbole
• metaphor
• simile
• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

What type of figurative language is shown?
The runner ran like a cheetah in the race.

• metaphor
• oxymoron
• simile
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What type of figurative language is shown?
Her long hair is an ocean of waves.

• personification
• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What type of figurative language is shown?
She was so sad that all the tears she cried filled up a lake.

• hyperbole
• oxymoron
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What type of figurative language is shown?
Tracy was really feeling down in the dumps.

• personification
• idiom
• hyperbole
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

What type of figurative language is shown?
Her eyes were as blue as the ocean.

• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What type of figurative language is shown?
I have told you a million times not to do that!

• personification
• alliteration
• hyperbole
• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A