Figurative Language

They fought like cats and dogs.

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

I've told you to clean your room a million times!

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

• Understatement

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Stop acting like a scrooge!

• Repetition

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Antithesis

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The wind howled in the night.

• Simile

• Understatement

• Personification

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

School is a prison.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Antithesis

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

2020 has been bad.

• Repetition

• Personification

• Understatement

• Antithesis

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Repetition

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

She did not realize that opportunity was knocking at her door.

• Personication

• Repetition

• Antithesis

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

The world is your oyster.

• Repetition

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D