Figurative Language

An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Giving human qualities to nonhuman things

• personification

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words

• simile

• personification

• idiom

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A comparison of two unlike things by saying one thing is the other (is, are, was, were)

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Phrases that people use in everyday language that do not make sense literally, but we understand what they mean

• alliteration

• personification

• hyperbole

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

A word that imitates the sound it represents

• idiom

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Ripley is as lazy as a sloth.

• idiom

• alliteration

• simile

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The clouds were cotton balls in the sky.

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• personification

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Hiss! Sizzle! Kerplop!

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• alliteration

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4