Lesson 2: Explaining Quotes: Figurative Language

What type of figurative language is used below?

“Senhor, when you awake, please look upon us all with new eyes.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What type of figurative language is used below?

“Spots of bright light glowed like jewels amidst the dark green forest.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What type of figurative language is used below?

“. . . The top of the rainforest at Blue Creek looks like a field of gigantic broccoli.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What type of figurative language is used below?

“The sun slammed down upon the scientist like a sledgehammer.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What type of figurative language is used below?

For those creatures that swing or glide or climb, there are the “emerald highways” strung together by vines and lianas that lace the tops of the trees together into a web for commuting life.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What type of figurative language is used below?

“. . . The inner leaves are a fiery red and erupt like tongues of flame from a volcano.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What type of figurative language is used below?

“A beetle. It’s beautiful. It’s kind of purple—no, sort of gold. It's got this weird Darth Vader head on it.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D