Identifying Figures of Speech

The deafening silence was broken by the crash of a falling tree.

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

He's so hungry he could eat a horse.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

With a mighty leap, the tiger shattered the silence of the jungle.

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Her words were daggers, each one cutting deeper than the last.

• Irony

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

The mountain stood proud, a mighty fortress guarding the valley below.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

In the end, we are all puppets, our strings pulled by unseen forces.

• Metaphor

• Irony

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

that beauty was a thing fashioned by the traders in words. Tired I shut the book and snuffed the candle.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

How could a few vain words

from a book rise like a mist, and

veil her whose voice

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The evening was lonely for me, and I was reading a book

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

till my heart became dry, and it seemed to me

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D