8th Grade Figurative Language

Front

Clouds as soft as cotton.

Back

Simile

Front

My new cell phone cost an arm and a leg.

Back

Hyperbole

Front

Stars winked in the night sky.

Back

Personification

Front

Dad is a pilot but afraid of heights.

Back

Irony

Front

Mrs. Moore's classroom was a zoo.

Back

Metaphor

Front

Sarah smells something stinky in the stairwell.

Back

Alliteration

Front

The car went boom as it backfired.

Back

Onomatopoeia

Front

Raining cats and dogs.

Back

Idiom

Front

Favorite food: jumbo shrimp.

Back

Oxymoron

Front

The sun smiled down on us as we walked through the park.

Back

Personification