Figurative Language & Sound Devices 1

For this Quizizz session, identify the figurative language device used in each sentence.

Tripping over my ball glove, Mom yelled angrily, "I have told you a gazillion times to keep your ball glove off the stairs!"

• onomatopoeis

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Just as I slid into home plate, I heard a snap and a pop! It was then I realized my leg was broken.

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• alliteration

Jansen is like a bowl of firecrackers near an open flame; you never know when he's going to let you have it.

• metaphor

• simile

• assonance

• idiom

Sadie sat silently staring out the window at the noon day sun.

• consonance

• assonance

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

"Well, toss the glass and kiss the boss! We finally got a raise!" Bess screamed as she saw her new contract.

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• oxymoron

"The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping.

As for one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

• hyperbole

• consonance

• assonance

• alliteration

"Well, I guess it's back to square one," Mr. Jamison muttered after he posted the mid-year Algebra II grades.

• hyperbole

• idiom/idiomatic expression

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

Jennifer's twins are the biggest little boys I have ever seen.

• oxymoron

• idiom

• personification

• onomatopoeia

My cat is a furry alien whose bizarre behaviors keep us in stitches.

• oxymoron

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Snow covers the city like blankets of white and sparkling diamonds.

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• personification