FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Identify the figurative language used in the following sentences.

The night sky was as black as coal.

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Oxymoron

The snow on the ski hill was powdered sugar.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Personification

The coach was as angry as a lion when his team lost the game.

• Oxymoron

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

The fire hungrily devoured everything in its path.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

The sun is a flower, that blooms for just one day.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

...the sound of the rain falling in tons and avalanches, everywhere and forever.

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

After working all day in the field, the farmer was hungry enough to eat a horse.

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

The bacon sizzled, hissed and popped in the hot pan.

• Idiom

• Oxymoron

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

When a writer references a well-known person, place, thing, event, or famous work.

• Oxymoron

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Idiom

• Personification

When two or more words close together in a story or poem start with the same consonant sound.

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Idiom

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia