Literary Devices/Figurative Language

Her hands are as cold as ice.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

The flower garden is like a colorful rainbow.

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Personification

Identify the Simile.

• My mom makes marvelous muffins.

• The CRACK of the ball against the bat is so exciting to me!

• My dog's fur is as soft as cotton.

• The shoes I'm wearing today are killing me.

Each piece of broccoli is a tiny tree on my dinner plate.

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Idiom

• Metaphor

The runner was a speeding bullet in the race.

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Identify the Metaphor.

• The tree outside my bedroom window stands watch each night.

• I was on cloud nine when Grandma visited.

• The ring from Grandma is a burst of fire on my hand.

• My mom makes marvelous muffins.

Wool is wonderfully warm in the winter.

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

The snowstorm started suddenly on Saturday.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

Identify Alliteration.

• My mom makes marvelous muffins.

• The CRACK of the ball against the bat is so exciting to me!

• The shoes I'm wearing today are killing me.

• The ring from Grandma is a burst of fire on my hand.

The pencil trembled in fear as it was carried to the pencil sharpener.

• Simile

• Idiom

• Alliteration

• Personification