Figurative Language

The lost hiker looked like death when searchers located him.

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Your argument is a red herring, and I'm not falling for it.

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

CCSS.RI.9-10.8

CCSS.SL.9-10.3

The trees of the field will clap their hands.

• Personification
• Metonymy
• Imagery
• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Lightning danced across the sky.

• Personification
• Metonymy
• Imagery
• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

• Hyperbole
• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia
• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The popular TV program features the 'living dead'.

• Symbolism
• Irony
• Oxymoron
• Synechdoche

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

It feels like it's 1000 degrees outside!

• Pun
• Hyperbole
• Anaphora
• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The bodybuilder has a Herculean physique.

• Anaphora
• Irony
• Allusion
• Understatement

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

It was clear from the madman's rant that he wasn't playing with a full deck.

• Pun
• Consonance
• Assonance
• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The golden yellow sunlight filtered down through the pale new leaves on the oak trees, coming to rest on Jessica's brown toes that were splayed in the red Georgia mud.

• Symbolism
• Imagery
• Tautology
• Litotes

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4