Figurative Language

Her books fell out of her locker with a thud.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Onomatopoeia

New York is a city that never sleeps.

• Simile

• Personification

• Allusion

• Idiom

• Rhyme

The builder banged on the wall and said, “This building is as solid as a rock.”

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Allusion

• Idiom

• Simile

Kelly wore her hair in pigtails like Britney Spears.

• Personification

• Allusion

• Euphemism

• Cliche

• Onomatopoeia

Susan sat alone and sang sad songs.

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

Aaron’s day was a brake-less bicycle ride down the side of a mountain. He had no control.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Rhyme

• Repitition

That song went on forever. I was tired of it long before it ended.

• Idiom

• Cliche

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Steve sighed with relief when he saw his report card. He’d passed science by the skin of his teeth.

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Irony

First they came for the Communists

And I did not speak out,

Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists

And I did not speak out,

Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me

And there was no one left

To speak out for me.

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Repetition

• Personification

• Cliche

Sanitation engineer = garbage man

• Allusion

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Euphemism