Figurative Language

I am so thirsty I could drink a lake!

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Autum is as fast as lightening.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Nick is a beast on the football field.

• metaphor

• allusion

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Jessica is an Einstein in her math class.

• allusion

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

The clock raced to get to 3:30 so the students could get out of school!

• simile

• allusion

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

The bees buzzed around the honey pot.

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Katie could sleep for a year; she is so tired!

• hyperbole

• allusion

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

It feels like forever until summer!

• allusion

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Isaac is as quiet as a mouse in Mrs. Chauncey's class.

• simile

• personification

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Crash! My computer fell to the floor!

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5