Figures of Speech

Life is a rollercoaster.

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The sun draped its arms around my shoulders.

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Palindrome

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

The river falls under us like a trap door.

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

I’ve told you to clean your room a million times!

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Please hold your horses the show is about to start.

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The boy shouted,

“Madam, I’m Adam!”

• Personification

• Oxymoron

• Palindrome

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

The buzzing bee startled me!

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• 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.

A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,

Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

There is a deafening silence the moment the professor entered the room.

• Palindrome

• Simile

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

'I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.’

• Palindrome

• Oxymoron

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4