Figurative Language

The horse clip-clopped down the street.

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Some students would rather eat dirt than sit down and read.

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Personification

• Metaphor

Sally sells sea shells down by the sea shore.

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Idiom

Chocolate was his Achilles' heel.

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Metaphor

Her backpack was a pigsty.

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Allusion

She slunk into the room like a mouse.

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Simile

• Alliteration

The chair groaned as the old man sat down.

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Personification

• Metaphor

Your hair is as dark as a blackboard.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

The wind whistled through the clouds.

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Allusion

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

• Allusion

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration