Figure of Speech Review

Her lovely voice was music to his ears.

• Simile
• Allusion
• Hyperbole
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

As playful as a kitten.

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification
• Idiom

Don't be a Scrooge!

• Allusion
• Hyperbole
• Idiom
• Simile

"And then one day the boy came back and the tree shook with joy" 

• Idiom
• Hyperbole
• Personificatioin
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

We waited for centuries for the latest game to be released.

• Personficiation
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole

Mr. Brown said we have to play it by ear.

• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Idiom
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Will you please hold your horses?

• Idiom 
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Personification

I'm so hungry, I could eat a whole elephant.

• Hyperbole
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Idiom

Sara heard the last piece of pie calling her name.

• Hyperbole
• Idiom
• Personification
• Metaphor

He was as honest as Abraham Lincoln.

• Allusion
• Hyperbole
• Metaphor
• Idiom