WSAS figurative language practice

"My brain was starving, and now it's getting its food."

• personification

• alliteration

• rhyme

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"soft mattress to sleep on. It feels like a cloud." p. 9

• personification

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

"Wait....wait...wait... Stupid. Stupid, Stupid" p.67

• idiom

• simile

• rhyme scheme

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"A warm feeling washes over me."

• idiom

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"She just sits and stares off into space, like she's seeing a ghost." p.80

• personification

• metaphor

• alliteration

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"My stomach felt twisted up all afternoon." p. 97

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed today." p. 159

• alliteration

• idiom

• onomatopeia

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

"People kept coming and coming and coming." p. 164

• alliteration

• rhyme scheme

• idiom

• onomatopeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"I had a million questions running through my mind." p. 162

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"through my foggy head, a little light crept in." p. 163

• hyperbole

• idiom

• personification

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4