Identifying Language Features

Lightning danced across the sky.

• metaphor
• personification
• simile
• hyperbole

Her eyes were as big as saucers.

• simile
• personification
• metaphor
• exaggeration

He had a heart of stone.

• metaphor
• personification
• pun
• euphemism

Early bird gets the worm

• Cliche
• Satire
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole

That's ratchet!

• colloquialism
• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• metaphor

The classroom was filled with a deafening silence.

• oxymoron
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• assonance

Hear the mellow wedding bells

• alliteration
• assonance
• hyperbole
• euphemism

"How'd you get the new phone?"
"It just fell off the back of a truck."

• euphemism
• paradox
• metaphor
• imperative

As old as the ark

• allusion
• metaphor
• personification
• oxymoron

The best way to communicate with fish is to drop them a line. 

• metaphor
• personification
• pun
• cliche