Figurative Language

Figure of speech which gives HUMAN characteristics to non-living things.

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

An EXAGGERATION that is too extreme to be taken seriously.

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Repetition of the same sound in a sentence or phrase.

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

COMPARES two unlike things using the words LIKE or AS.

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A word you might use to imitate a SOUND.

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

COMPARES two things by saying one thing is another.

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A common saying that cannot be taken literally.

• Idiom

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

I called you a million times!!!

• Idiom

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

It's raining cats and dogs.

• Idiom

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

That cake is calling my name.

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A