Figurative language

The street cars are like frosted cakes covered with snowflakes.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

The west wind dances down the road.

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

She’s as tiny as a mouse.

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Oxymoron

Her blonde hair shined like the sun.

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

The lightweight fighter lost so much weight, he looked as thin as a rail.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopeia

When the pitcher finished nine innings, he was hungry enough to eat a horse.

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Simile

• Metaphor

The kite drank the wind and laughed across the sky.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Oxymoron

The kite drank the wind and laughed across the sky.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Oxymoron

The hockey player lost his control when the puck ran across the ice.

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

The snow on the ski hill was powdered sugar.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron