Figurative Language Practice

The pencil danced across the paper.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Life is like a box of chocolates.

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

It was so cold outside, I saw a polar bear wearing a jacket.

• simile

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Tommy is a bull in a china shop.

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Gabby gulped down the Mt. Dew.

• idiom

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

• alliteration

• simile

• hyperbole

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

He told the actors to "break a leg" before their performance.

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• idiom

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Giving human like characteristics to a non-human thing

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

An extreme exaggeration

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Comparison using "like" or "as"

• metaphor

• simile

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D