Figurative Language Practice

The golden leaves floated softly down through the gentle breeze and landed on the gleaming white freshly fallen snow.

• alliteration
• imagery
• personification
• simile

The line to buy Astros tickets was one hundred miles long! 

• simile
• personification
• hyperbole
• alliteration

The alarm clock screamed loudly to wake the sleeping children. 

• simile
• onomatopoeia 
• alliteration
• personification

Her eyes are like diamonds shining in the night. 

• repetition
• simile
• allusion
• hyperbole

Santa screamed, "Ho, Ho, Ho!" as he raced off into the night. 

• repetition
• simile
• hyperbole
• metaphor

Lily lifted her leg onto the ledge, lingering near the line. 

• repetition
• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• simile

Raindrops tap danced on the sidewalk and pelted me in the face as I walked home from school. 

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• alliteration

The wet, muddy dog dashed down the driveway to get away from his owner who was screaming at him to come home. 

• personification
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• simile

The thief was a cat in the night trying to escape the police.

• simile
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia
• alliteration

She ran as fast as hurricane winds at the track meet! 

• metaphor
• simile
• alliteration
• repetition