Figurative Language Review

"He's just an old flame," my mom explained as we were looking through a photo album.

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification

Mr. Henson was absent all week because he was feeling under the weather.

• simile

• personificatin

• hyperbole

• idiom

Aimee could not sleep because the wind whistled all night long.

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• alliteration

More than five thousand cars sold so far. The new model is selling like hot cakes.

• hyperbole

• idiom

• metaphor

• alliteration

I had to hurry home where grandma was waiting for her waffles.

• allusion

• alliteration

• aliteration

• onomatopoeia

With no light around us, it seems the stars are sparkling diamonds.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

Your explanation is as clear as mud.

• metaphor

• simile

• smile

• hyperbole

His brain’s the size of a pea.

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• alliteration

We heard the vroom of the car’s engine as it whizzed by and screeched around the corner.

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• aliteration

Paula planted the pretty pink poppies in the pot.

• aliteration

• alliteration

• illteration

• iliteration