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"You are the apple of my eye" is an example of 

• a simile
• a metaphor
• an analogy
• personification

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Words or phrases that describe one thing in terms of another and are not meant literally.

• Figurative Language
• Personification
• Onomatopoeia
• Repetition

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This is an example of

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification
• Allusion

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Why did the author use the simile "like slaps on cement" to describe the Fat Lady?

• To help the reader imagine why Martin was afraid of her.
• To introduce alliteration.
• To impress the reader with figurative language.
• To introduce conflict.

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Children and dogs and houses bloom
like crowded flowers,
This is an example of: 

• metaphor
• simile
• onomatopoeia

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"They danced like deer on the ___________"

• sun
• pluto
• star
• moon

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"Her hardest hue to hold." What figurative language technique is being used here?

• Personification
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Hyperbole

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"Your love is a symphony

All around me

Running through me

Your love is a melody

Underneath me

Running to me"

-Switchfoot, "Your Love is a Song"

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

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_________________ is an extreme exaggeration.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

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He swung around the anonymous heap of metal being swallowed by a greedy mound of blackberry brambles and came to a halt on his bike. This sentence contains an example of -

• simile

• metaphor

• symbolism

• personification

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