The Schwa Was Here Figurative Languge

Old Man Crawley was a certifiable loony tune.

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

My grandmother's rolling in her grave

• personification

• alliteration

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

We are doing a Pisher Plastic Products stress test

• alliteration

• simile

• idiom

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Ira was determined to be Steven Spielberg

• allusion

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

My English teacher says I also drop vowels like a bad juggler

• allusion

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Wait a few years and you'll be breaking hearts

• simile

• idiom

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Wham! He hits the jagged boulders, and it's over for him

• idiom

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

The Schwa snapped Manny's head back on as if it were a giant Barbie

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

You know--too many cooks stink up the kitchen

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• idiom

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Give him some crayons and a blank page and his forehead would start to bleed

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4