Figurative Language Analysis

I'm sly as a fox

• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia
• Metaphor
• Simile

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.L.4.5A

Her personality bloomed like a butterfly.

• Imagery
• Personification
• Simile
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

That car is a state.

• Hyperbole
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.4.5A

The slice of that cake is as big as an ant.

• Allusion
• Simile
• Onomatopoeia
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

That haircut is a horror story.

• Imagery
• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The shadow creeped around a corner to an alley.

• Personification
• Simile
• Imagery
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The green bowling ball moved slowly at first, picking up speed as it reached the pins and knocked down all but one.

• Hyperbole
• Imagery
• Alliteration
• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Beep, Beep! The register scanned the items.

• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Consonance
• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

That dog is as big as a horse. 

• Personification
• Imagery
• Alliteration
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The brown, yellow and red leaves danced in the wind as the wind howled, swirling the leaves around and around a deserted parking lot.

• Alliteration
• Imagery
• Personification
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.L.4.5A