Figurative Language Review

Lightning danced across the sky.

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Idiom

• Hyperbole`

I've already seen this movie a million times!

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

You were as brave as a lion.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

Gary grumpily gathered the garbage.

• Idiom

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

Her voice was music.

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

The box fell off the counter with a loud boom!

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

Are you pulling my leg?

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

Comparing two things using like or as

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Comparing two things directly, without using like or as

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Idiom

A statement that makes no sense when taken literally, an idiotic statement

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Personification