Figurative Language

Life is a highway. I'm gonna ride it all night long. 

• Personification
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Onomatopeia

It's raining cats and dogs out here!

• Idiom
• Personification
• Metaphor
• Simile

The wind spoke its ancient secrets to me. 

• Metaphor
• Idiom
• Personification
• Onomatopoeia 

Her hair looked like golden rays of sun blowing in the wind. 

• Metaphor 
• Simile
• Idiom
• Onomatopoeia 

A simile compares two items using like or as

• True

• False

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

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• allusion

”Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary,” - Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven"

• metaphor

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• allusion