Figurative Language

Giving non living things human characteristics

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Comparing 2 things using "like" or "as"

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Comparing 2 things without using "like" or "as"

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

sound words

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

a phrase or idea not meant to be taken literally

• idiom

• hyperbole

• imagery

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Using descriptive words to create a visual image

• personification

• alliteration

• imagery

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

repetition of the first consonant sound

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• alliteration

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Something that represents something else

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Two words that have opposite meanings (jumbo shrimp)

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

an exaggeration for effect

• alliteration

• personification

• imagery

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A