Writing Tricks

Uses the words “like” or “as” to compare one object with another to suggest they are alike or similar.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• appositive

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

He was busy as a bee.

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Compares two things that are not related to each other.

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Her eyes were jewels, sparkling in the sun.

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Giving human characteristics to animals or objects.

• appositive

• hyperbole

• idiom

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

The flowers danced in the breeze.

• alliteration

• idiom

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

A huge exaggeration, often humorous.

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• coordinate adectives

Tags

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

He was so hungry, he ate the whole cow for lunch, tail and all!

• alliteration

• appositive

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The repetition of the initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables.

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• consonoance

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

Nelson never knows when Noah naps in class.

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• coordinate adjectives

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.RL.2.4