Figurative language terms & examples

The toast jumped out of the toaster

• personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Your a couch potato

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

We're up, wide-eyed, and wondering while we wait for others to awaken.

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Personification

You are as busy as a bee

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Simile

• Alliteration

Snap crackle pop

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Idioms

• Personification

He was so hungry he ate the whole cornfield for lunch

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Personification

Think out side of the box

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Idiom