Grade 4 Figure of Speech

I can smell your scent for miles.

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

I am rock, I am an island.

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Readings is as easy as ABC.

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Mike's microphone made much music.

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Metonymy

The actor vroomed his motorbike across people watching him.

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Assonance

• Irony

I am so busy. I have a million things to do.

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Euphemism

• Apostrophe

James ran like a cheetah.

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Simile

• Hyperbole

The camel is the ship of the desert.

• Idiom

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

Man proposes, God disposes.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Antithesis

• Oxymoron

Their brilliant son who failed his college exam.

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Irony