Figurative Language

The pencil danced across the paper

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• symbol

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Life is like a box of chocolates

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing jackets

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• symbol

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Tommy is a bull in a china stop

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• symbol

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

I told you one million times to clean your room

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

• symbol

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Which of the following is an example of onomatopoeia?

• She was white as a ghost

• Buzz

• Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Peppers

• Break a leg

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"You are the thunder, and I am the lightning," is an example of which type of figurative language?

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Chliche

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I plant purple petunias in the park.

• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• personification
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The sun played hide and seek with the clouds.

• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia
• simile
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

The snowballs were bullets, punching me in the chest, is an example of...

• A hyperbole/personification
• A metaphor/personification
• A simile/metaphor
• Personification/Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3