Figurative Language Practice

“Tick, tock.” ― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• allusion

“Danny strolled to the town common, sat on one of the benches in Teenytown and took one of the bottles out of the bag, looking down on it like Hamlet with Yorick's skull” ― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

• hyperbole

• personification

• metaphor

• allusion

”A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open”.-Frank Zappa

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

“It's a piece of cake.”

• hyperbole

• idiom

• allusion

• simile

Phrase:
His heart was a block of ice.

• alliteration
• simile
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia

Phrase:
The cup danced joyfully across the table.

• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• personification

This term means to use a strong exaggeration:

• personification
• idiom
• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole

"Her eyes were sparkling diamonds" is an example of:

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

The lost hiker looked like death when searchers located him.

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification
• Hyperbole

The trees of the field will clap their hands.

• Personification
• Metonymy
• Imagery
• Idiom