figurative language

America is a melting pot.

• alliteration
• simile
• metaphor
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The trees danced in the blowing wind.

• onomatopoeia
• simile
• metaphor
• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

The Titanic was often called the "unsinkable ship", yet it sank on its maiden voyage.

• juxtaposition

• simile

• irony

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

I heard a loud BOOM outside my window.

• personification
• simile
• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

It is so hot outside. I bet it is a million degrees!

• hyperbole
• metaphor
• alliteration
• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"There is darkness and light within all of us."

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• juxtaposition

• irony

“Tick, tock.” ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

”A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open”.-Frank Zappa

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

When the pitcher finished nine innings, he was hungry enough to eat a horse.

• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Oxymoron
• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The car is a dinosaur so we better buy a new one.

• The car is very old.
• The car was truly made in prehistoric times.
• The car is very new.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1