Figurative Language - Grade 7C

The pencil danced across the paper.

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  Metaphor

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  Hyperbole

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  Simile

• Personification

Life is like a box of chocolates.

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  Simile

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  Personification

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  Hyperbole

• Metaphor

It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing jackets!

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

Tommy is a bull in a Chinese shop.

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Idiom

He told the actors to "break a leg" for good luck before the play began.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Idiom

Giving human qualities to non-humans like animal or objects is ...

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

A weird expression that means something other than what it actually says.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Idiom

Comparison WITHOUT using "like" or "as"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Personification

An exaggeration

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Idiom

Compare two unlike things using the words like and as.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Idiom