Figurative Language

The street cars are like frosted cakes covered with snowflakes.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

The west wind dances down the road.

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

She’s as tiny as a mouse.

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Oxymoron

Polly Peters positively played Ping-Pong.

• Alliteration

• Onomatopeia

• Simile

• Personification

When the pitcher finished nine innings, he was hungry enough to eat a horse.

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Simile

• Metaphor

“Crack” went the bat as the pitcher hit a home run.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopeia

• Alliteration

The kite drank the wind and laughed across the sky.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Oxymoron

Happy Harry handles handsprings horribly.

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

The snow on the ski hill was powdered sugar.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

Freddy French fired five fabulous free throws.

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron