Figurative Language

The hospital was a refrigerator.

• metaphor
• simile

You were as brave as a lion.

• metaphor
• simile

The classroom was a zoo.

• metaphor
• simile

America is a melting pot.

• metaphor
• simile

They fought like cats and dogs.

• metaphor
• simile

a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, using the words "like" or "as" to make a description more emphatic or vivid

• metaphor
• simile

Their home was a prison.

• metaphor
• simile

Life is a rollercoaster.

• metaphor
• simile

This house is as clean as a whistle.

• metaphor
• simile

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

• metaphor
• simile