Figurative language

My mother’s kitchen was like a holy place: you couldn’t wear your shoes, you had to sit there at a certain time, and occasionally we’d pray.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Antithesis

Charlie gazed hopelessly at the endless pile of bills stretching across the counter.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

Justice is blind and, at times, deaf.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

The typical teenage boy’s room is a disaster area.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Oxymoron

• Antithesis

The acorn plopped into the puddle.

• Personification

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

The buzzing bee flew over my head.

• Personification

• Pun

• Onomatopoeia

• Repetition

I can smell pizza from a mile away.

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

The plants in her house silently begged to be watered

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

I don’t trust stairs because they’re always up to something.

• Hyperbole

• Pun

• Oxymoron

• Antithesis

To err is human; to forgive divine.

• Onomatopoeia

• Antithesis

• Personification

• Metaphor