Figurative Language

What is this an example of? My dad snores like a chainsaw.

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• personification

What is this an example of? The snow is a white blanket.

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• personification

• hyperbole

What is this an example of? Lightning danced across the sky.

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• personification

• hyperbole

What is this an example of? I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• personification

• hyperbole

Match the following terms to their definitions:

• a direct comparison using like or as

• Metaphor

• giving human characteristics to nonhumans

• Onomatopoeia

• sound words

• Simile

• a direct comparison of unlike things (using is/are)

• Personification

My father was the sun and the moon to me. 

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

The tree shook its branches angrily in the wind. 

• hyperbole

• personification

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

The baby was like an octopus, grabbing for everything in sight. 

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

I got to the sale too late and they were sold out. Oh well, early bird catches the worm.

• personification

• idiom

• alliteration

• metaphor

 Leslie said that she was in the dark about what's going on.

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom

• alliteration