Figurative Language

The dragon was as big as a house.

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Get off her high horse

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Ms. Morris makes marvelous muffins

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

I'm sorry I was late for school, but it wasn't my fault. First, my alarm didn't go off in time and then it took my mom about a million years to make my breakfast. Then, I spilled syrup on my shirt and had to change it. Then, I couldn't I find my homework.

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Keith is a shining star

• Metaphor

• idiom

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Dying of Laughter

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The trees danced in the window.

• Personification

• idiom

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Break a leg

• Metaphor

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Time is money

• hyperbole

• idiom

• metaphor

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

• idiom

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4