Figurative Language 2.21

"Your dad's old school, like an ol'Chevette."

What type of figurative language is being used?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

"My beautiful Gran died so completely out of the blue." What type of figurative language is the highlighted part of the sentence?

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• idiom

"I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, welling and swelling I bear in the tide." What type of figurative language is being used in the sentence?

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

"Two geological years later, we heard the soles of Atticus's shoes scrape the front steps." What type of figurative language is being used in the highlighted part of the sentence?

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• hyperbole

"His tongue was dry and stuck to the roof of his mouth, as if he'd licked an entire jar of peanut butter." What type of figurative language is the highlighted part of the sentence?

• alliteration

• simile

• idiom

"That night when I was snug in the deep feathery bed beside Big Ma, the tat-tat of the rain against the tin roof changed to a deafening roar." What type of figurative language is the highlighted part of the sentence?

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• metaphor

"She entered with ungainly struggle like some huge awkward chicken, torn, squawking, and out of its coop." What type of figurative language is the highlighted part of the sentence?

• hyperbole

• simile

• alliteration

Don't let the cat out of the bag! What type of figurative language is the highlighted part of the sentence?

• idiom

• simile

• metaphor

That toy costs an arm and a leg! What type of figurative language is the highlighted part of the sentence?

• alliteration

• personification

• idiom

My mouth is on fire! I need water! I can't believe that I just ate that habanero pepper! What type of figurative language is the highlighted part of the sentence?

• alliteration

• simile

• hyberbole