Figurative Language

That girl was quick like a cheetah.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

The pair of perky penguins paraded around the park.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

The book fell with a thump.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Idiom

It took a million years for us to check out at the grocery store!

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

The pop rocks were a party in my mouth.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

The trees bowed in the strong wind.

• Idiom

• Onomotopoeia

• Personification

• Simile

The boy was a torpedo, flying through the water.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Suzie sells seashells by the seashore.

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Alliteration

That homework was a piece of cake!

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Idiom

The plastic bag did backflips across the sidewalk.

• idiom

• simile

• metaphor

• personification