Figurative Language and Sound Devices - 2025

Front

A comparison of two unlike things using like, as, than, or resembles.

Back

simile 

Front

A comparison of one thing as if it were another

Back

metaphor

Front

giving human characteristics to a nonhuman subject

Back

personification

Front

Jack's hair and beard are bright blond.

Back

literal language is used

Front

When he heard the scream, claws of fear tore at his scalp.

Back

figurative language

Front

The giraffe nibbled at the leaves on the tree.

Back

literal language

Front

Dead on her feet, Marla collapsed onto the worn bus seat, glad her 24 hour shift was finally over.

Back

figurative language

Front

The tornado played with the car, picking it up in its jaws, then dropping it.

Back

figurative language

Front

The shark's fin cut the water like a razor slashing silk.

Back

figurative language

Front

What is being compared in this simile: The skin on the farmer's face was as wrinkled, weathered, and worn as the leather on a horse's harness?

Back

skin-leather