Poetry Terms

What type of figurative language is shown?
Life is one long, adventurous roller coaster.

• simile
• onomatopeia
• hyperbole
• metaphor

What type of figurative language is shown?
Darcy daringly dove down the deep ditch.

• alliteration
• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia
• personification

What type of figurative language is shown?
The run down house looked depressed.

• personification
• idiom
• alliteration
• hyperbole

What type of figurative language is shown?
The room was filled with a deafening silence.

• idiom
• metaphor
• oxymoron
• hyperbole

What type of figurative language is shown?
Her smile was as bright as sunshine.

• hyperbole
• simile
• personification
• metaphor

What type of figurative language is shown?
Nancy's nephew needs new notebooks.

• idiom
• oxymoron
• hyperbole
• alliteration

What type of figurative language is shown?
She is so smart. She is a walking dictionary.

• metaphor
• oxymoron
• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole

What type of figurative language is shown?
The ice crunched under my feet.

• oxymoron
• personification
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia

What type of figurative language is shown?
When her first attempt failed, she went back to the drawing board.

• idiom
• onomatopoeia
• oxymoron
• hyperbole

What type of figurative language is shown?
I have a million chores to do tonight!

• onomatopoeia
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• alliteration