Figurative Language in Literature

"A wretched stench floated in the air." 

• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• consonance

"I lit the fuse, ran, BANG!"

• assoance
• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole
• personification 

"A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did." 

• hyperbole 
• simile 
• onomatopoeia 
• assonance 

"He was a shrimp of a boy." 

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• assonance

"Their houses were usually long, low, and comfortable." 

• simile 
• hyperbole`
• alliteration 
• irony

"The day was dawning, and the shepherd urged his sheep in the direction of the sun." 

• alliteration 
• hyperbole
• simile 
• personification 

"The dress seemed to mock her." 

• simile 
• consonance 
• irony
• personification 

"Imagination was a killer." 

• metaphor and personification
• simile and hyperbole
• irony and personification 
• onomatopoeia and simile

"The flesh  hung wrinkled off the bone, old and and leathery like a lizard's." 

• irony and alliteration 
• simile and alliteration 
• metaphor and consonance 
• hyperbole and alliteration 

"Roll-roll-roll-roll
Heave ho! Splash plump
Down they go, down they bump."

• consonance and simile 
• hyperbole and personification 
• assonance and irony 
• onomatopoeia and assonance