figurative language

“Cars come and go like frantic ants.”

• personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Allusion

“I tell her of my father’s great herd, and how they would graze each day, walking for miles, the sun in our bones, the grass whispering its shy music.”

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

When a writer gives an animal or an object qualities or abilities that only a human can have?

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

Come and clean your closet, Carol!

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• alliteration

• simile

You are my sunshine.

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

A comparison of who different things by stating that one thing is another

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

What type of figurative language being used in the following sentence?

The students are as busy as bees as they worked to finish their final project for the school year.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Time crawled as Tom sat in detention.

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Rachel is a walking encyclopedia.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Idiom

America is a melting pot.

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

• personification