figurative language

Her smile was as bright as the morning sun.

• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole
• personification

It's raining cats and dogs!

• hyperbole
• personification
• idiom
• onomatopoeia

The classroom was a zoo!

• simile
• personification
• hyperbole
• metaphor

The world is a stage.

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• onomatopoeia

The wind howled in the night.

• hyperbole
• metaphor
• simile
• personification

My alarm clock yells at me every morning.

• personification
• simile
• metaphor
• idiom

Bees and buzzers buzz.

• simile
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole

The dishes fell to the floor in a clatter.

• personification
• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole
• idiom

I am so hungry I could eat a horse.

• hyperbole
• metaphor
• personification
• idiom

Our new house costs a bazillion dollars.

• hyperbole
• idiom
• simile
• metaphor