Examples of Figurative Language

The swimming pool called to the hot children is an example of...

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"She could hear the pitter patter of the rain on the roof" is an example of...

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

The racecar screamed down the track is an example of...

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

A phrase that compares two things using the words like or as is the definition of...

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"A phrase that has multiple meanings and is not meant to be taken literally" is the definition of

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• idiom

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

"Giving non-human things human abilities and qualities" is the definition of...

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

"A repeating letter sound in a sentence or phrase" is the definition of...

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

An exaggeration to make something bigger, better, or more

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"Writing or reading the sound that something makes" is an example of...

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

"A sentence or phrase that compares two things without using the words like or as" is the definition of...

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• hyperobole

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D