Figurative Language 2024

Her hair is like gold and as strong as an ox.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

The cruel wind tore off the roof of the house.

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

The students were like ants crowded around the pizza box.

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

If I can’t buy that perfect prom dress, I’ll die!

• hyperbole

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

The strawberry cake whispered my name when I walked by.

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

That tree is a statue in the forest.

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

• personification

Maria’s new puppy is an eating machine.

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

It was so cold, I saw polar bears wearing jackets.

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

using like/as to compare to unlike things

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

comparing two unlike things by saying one is another

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• alliteration