Figurative Language Examples

Our soldiers are brave as lions.

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Simile

Laughter is the best medicine

• Symbol

• Onomotopia

• Metaphor

• Allusion

It cost an arm and a leg.

• idiom

• hyperbole

• pun

• personification

Sally sold seashells at the seashore.

• denotation

• alliteration

• connotation

• pun

The stars danced in the sky

• denotation

• pun

• personification

• symbol

Id jump in front of a train for ya

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

• pun

• imagery

There was a boom as the bomb dropped during WWll

• imagery

• onomatopia

• pun

• connotaion

His opponent was looking for his Achilles heel to beat him

• metaphor

• allusion

• personification

• similie

The girl ran her hand along the dogs soft back

• idiom

• onomatopia

• imagery

• hyperbole

An elephants opinion carries a lot of weight

• pun

• personification

• imagery

• connotation