Poems & Figurative Language

Comparing using like or as.

• Extended metaphor

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is a hyperbole?

• A statement that refers to something

• Comparing without using like or as

• Giving non-living things human-like qualities

• An extreme exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

She was as cool as an ice cube.

• Simile

• Idiom

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is an allusion?

• Comparing without using like or as

• A statement that refers to something

• Giving human-like qualities to a non-living thing

• Saying that is meant to be taken figuratively

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

The clock was yelling at me.

• Extended metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

You are such a bear.

• Idiom

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

This class is taking forever.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

You are as smart as Albert Einstein. (select all that apply)

• Idiom

• Simile

• Allusion

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

It's raining cats and dogs.

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Your ego is as big as the world.

(select all that apply)

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A