Figurative Language Quiz 2

The man held the blanket like a memory.

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

• idiom

The ice sculptor’s hands fluttered like hummingbird wings.

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• simile

I’m about as awesome as a flying giraffe.

• personification

• idiom

• simile

• metaphor

You are soft as the nesting dove.

• metaphor

• simile

• idiom

• personification

The sun reached down its rays to Earth

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

• alliteration

The light kissed the flower’s petals

• hyperbole

• allusion

• simile

• personification

The flowers danced in the breeze

• symbolism

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

The horse’s hooves clip-clopped on the cobblestones.

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

Those clucking chickens are driving me crazy!

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• symbolism

The prisoner was terrified to hear the crack of the whip.

• alliteration

• metaphor

• idiom

• onomatopoeia