Figurative Language Examples (Import)

“Tick, tock.” ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• allusion

Lightning danced across the sky.

• allusion

• idiom

• personification

• proverb

”A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open”.-Frank Zappa

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

The light of a fire is a sight.

• assonance

• proverb

• pun

• modifier

“It's a piece of cake.”

• hyperbole

• idiom

• allusion

• simile

Honk! Beep! BOOM hissssssssss

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• personification

• analogy

”Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary,” - Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven"

• metaphor

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• allusion

rose = love, dove = peace,

black =death/evil

• symbolism

• similie

• personification

• imagery

“Danny strolled to the town common, sat on one of the benches in Teenytown and took one of the bottles out of the bag, looking down on it like Hamlet with Yorick's skull” ― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

• hyperbole

• personification

• metaphor

• allusion

This place looks like the Garden of Eden!

• assonance

• alliteration

• allusion

• allegory