Figurative Language Examples Review

Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore.

• Alliteration

• Analogy

• Cliche'

• Assonance

There's plenty of fish in the sea!

• Alliteration

• Analogy

• Cliche'

• Assonance

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other word would smell as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called"

• Alliteration

• Analogy

• Cliche'

• Assonance

Adam the ant ate an apple.

• Alliteration

• Analogy

• Cliche'

• Assonance

He is a real Einstein.

• Allusion

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

I walked a million miles today.

• Allusion

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

She is under the weather today.

• Allusion

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

After the long run, he collapsed in the grass with tired and burning muscles. The grass tickled his skin and sweat cooled on his brow.

• Allusion

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

He is a couch potato. All he does is sit around and watch tv all day.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personfication

• Oxymoron

Her eyes are as blue as the ocean.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personfication

• Oxymoron