Figurative Language 3

After the ball was run over by the car, it was as flat as a pancake.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Understatement

• Personification

The baby girl’s smile was the sun on dark days.

• metaphor

• simile

• understatement

• rhyme

The piano sang a mournful song.

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Understatement

• Dramatic Irony

Harriet Tubman was a Moses to the slaves who she took north to freedom.

• alliteration

• allusion

• simile

• understatement

A marriage counselor filed for divorce.

• metaphor

• dramatic irony

• situational irony

• allusion

Her brain is the size of a pea.

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

Sally was a little bit annoyed when her brother woke her up at 3 AM.

• Understatement

• Hyperbole

• Situational irony

• Allusion

The baby girl’s smile was the sun on dark days.

• alliteration

• simile

• repetition

• rhyme

Oh, I hope, I hope that it snows tomorrow!

• hyperbole

• personification

• repetition

• alliteration

She took off her wedding ring the moment she saw her husband with another woman.

• repetition

• metaphor

• symbolism

• alliteration