Figurative Language DOK 2.1

I can smell pizza from a mile away.

• hyperbole
• assonance
• simile
• metaphor

The cast on Michael’s broken leg was a plaster shackle.

• hyperbole
• idiom
• simile
• metaphor

I know that the fight that they had yesterday seemed serious, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. 

• hyperbole
• idiom
• simile
• alliteration

Justice is blind and, at times, deaf.

• simile
• idiom
• personification
• alliteration

When the canary keeled over, the coal miners left the cave.

• hyperbole
• idiom
• simile
• alliteration

Her hair was as soft as a spider web.

• assonance
• idiom
• simile
• hyperbole

Her heels clacked on the hardwood floor.

• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• simile
• metaphor

The engineer held the steering to steer the vehicle.

• assonance
• alliteration
• metaphor
• simile

Forget knocking it out of the park, Frank can knock a baseball off the continent.

• simile
• alliteration
• hyperbole
• idiom

The brown grass was begging for water.

• simile
• alliteration
• hyperbole
• personification