Figurative Language

These words authors use to appeal to readers' senses and help them feel what characters feel.

• Sensory Words/Imagery

• Idiom

• Simile

• Pun

You nailed it!

• Imagery

• Pun

• Idiom

• Metaphor

Caden had a throbbing headache.

• Personification

• Simile

• Sensory Words/Imagery

• Idiom

This is an expression that means something different from the meanings of its individual words.

• Idiom

• Proverb

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Javier is as strong as an ox.

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Pun

• Simile

I have a million things to do.

• Hyperbole

• Pun

• Metaphor

• Personification

This is a comparison of two things by saying one thing is another thing.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

This gives human qualities or characteristics to an animal or object.

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

This is a comparison of two things using "like" or "as".

• Hyperbole

• Pun

• Simile

• Personification

This is an exaggeration, usually used for dramatic effect or to make people laugh.

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Simile