Figurative Language Practice

Comparison using 'like' or 'as'. Ex. It was as sweet as pie

• Pun
• Alliteration
• Simile
• Idiom

Comparison not using 'like' or 'as'. Ex. Time is money

• Irony
• Metaphor
• Oxymoron
• Pun

Extreme exaggeration. Ex. I waited in line for a century

• Personification
• Idiom
• Onomatopoeia
• Hyperbole

Attributing human characteristics to non-human things. Ex. The trees danced in the wind

• Irony
• Pun
• Alliteration
• Personification

A joke playing on words. Ex. I am a baker because I knead the dough

• Personification
• Pun
• Simile
• Hyperbole

Expression not to be taken literally. Ex. piece of cake

• Simile
• Personification
• Oxymoron
• Idiom

Words imitating sounds. Ex. 'Crack', 'Whoosh'

• Onomatopoeia
• Pun
• Hyperbole
• Alliteration

Repetition of beginning sounds. Ex. He acts silly at times, but he was Blessed with a Brilliant Brain

• Personification
• Metaphor
• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration

Contradictory words. Ex. Boneless ribs, old news

• Irony
• Oxymoron
• Pun
• Hyperbole

Opposite of expected. Ex. There's a fire inside the fire station

• Pun
• Onomatopoeia
• Personification
• Irony