Figurative language

You've already told me that story a million times!

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Personification

The spicy food danced around my taste buds.

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

• personification

Don't you feel well? You're as white as a sheet.

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• alliteration

You are the sunshine of my life.

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

Wasps and flies buzzed around our picnic in the garden.

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• personification

Mum's got eyes in the back of her head!

• hyperbole

• idiom

• alliteration

• metaphor

The ivy hugged the walls of the old building tightly.

• personification

• alliteration

• idiom

• hyperbole

The steam train hissed as it waited in the station.

• metaphor

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Tyler's room is a tip!

• idiom

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• simile