Figurative Language 3

We at lunch at Annie's Awesome Apples.

• Alliteration

• Euphemism

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Rachel ran right until she realized she was running round and round.

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

Some people are calling me the Tiger Woods of miniature golf.

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Symbolism

1. Well, I’m no Hercules, but I could open that jelly jar for you.

• Allusion

• Euphemism

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

John was fired at his job for being creative with the truth about the company's finances.

• Euphemism

• Allusion

• Oxymoron

• Symbolism

The vertically challenged boy did not make the basketball team.

• Euphemism

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Phoebe is a nightingale. Everyone waited eagerly for her to come up on stage.

• Metaphor

• Euphemism

• Symbolism

• Simile

• My friend's sister, Sharon, is a night owl.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

Amrita carried home a ton of papers that she had to grade before Friday.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Simile

This work is going to take me years to finish.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

• Simile