Figurative Language/Literary Devices: Practice 3 & 4

1. Frequently, fish tacos are flavorless.

• metaphor
• hyperbole
• alliteration
• personification

2. Her anger was a storm that struck suddenly and without warning.

• metaphor
• hyperbole
• personification
• idiom

3. The shy little girl was as timid as a rabbit when strangers were present.

• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• personification

4. Kelly wore her hair in pigtails like Britney Spears.

• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• allusion

5. Today was the best day ever.

• metaphor
• hyperbole
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia

6. Her books fell out of her locker with a thud.

• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia
• idiom
• allusion

7. New York is a city that never sleeps.

• metaphor
• personification
• idiom
• allusion

8. After weeks of working late, Austin was feeling run-down.

• metaphor
• hyperbole
• personification
• idiom

9. A comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as.

• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia

10. A group of words whose collective meaning is quite different from their individual, literal meaning.

• idiom
• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• alliteration