Figurative Language

Q. 

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom

• analogy

Q. 

Sean is a chicken when it comes to riding his bike.

• simile

• idiom

• irony

• understatement

Q. 

Lightning danced across the sky during a thunderstorm.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

You are the dew on the morning grass / and the burning wheel of the sun

• simile

• zoomorphism

• understatement

• metaphor

Jerry's mind wandered during class like a balloon

• simile

• hyperbole

• understatement

• irony

She walks in beauty, like the night

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

The garbage reached so high/That it almost touched the sky

• hyperbole

• understatement

• analogy

• simile

Martin was feeling blue when his best friend moved away.

• simile

• understatement

• idiom

• hyperbole

We heard an ear-splitting shriek coming from the parking-lot.

• hyperbole

• analogy

• irony

• simile

Kristof was coughing and sneezing. He was feeling under the weather.

• hyperbole

• idiom

• simile

• irony