Figurative Language

Lucky lady leans lightly on the lamp-post.

• metaphor
• hyperbole
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia

I'll never finish all this homework in a million years!

• hyperbole
• simile
• personification
• metaphor

The city was a steaming jungle that day.

• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• personification
• metaphor

That baby is so big they need to use a bed sheet as a diaper!

• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia
• idiom
• metaphor

Her dress was as bright as a field of flowers.

• personification
• onomatopoeia
• simile
• hyperbole

The grasses bent down, bowing to the wind as it rushed through the field.

• idiom
• hyperbole
• personification
• alliteration

He walked in on cat feet, soft and silent.

• hyperbole
• simile
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia

Wendy wished the wicked witch would wither away.

• alliteration
• simile
• personificaton
• onomatopoeia

BOING! The pen broke open and the spring flew across the room.

• personification
• alliteration
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia

His face was a moon, hovering over the shrubs of our back yard.

• onomatopoeia
• metaphor
• idiom
• personification