Restart Figurative Language

What type of figurative language is this?

All the anger that's been building inside me since Joel left for Melton rises to t he surface like magma.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What type of figurative language is this?

I mumble, I can't put my finger on it, but there's something about my dad that makes me nervous.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• idiom

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What type of figurative language is this?

My mind is a black hole.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• idiom

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What type of figurative language is this?

You didn't just whoosh into being when you came out of that coma.

• personification

• hyperbole

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What type of figurative language is this?

Recruiting him is like inviting a shark over for sushi.

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What type of figurative language is this?

That's something you can sink your teeth into.

• idiom

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What type of figurative language is this?

...a close encounter with Chase Ambrose and lived to tell the tale.

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• simile

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What type of figurative language is this?

"Not in a million years," is her reply.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What type of figurative language is this?

"This is the land of the carnivores, where lesser animals fear to tread."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A