Figurative Language

Like burnt-out torches by a sick man's bed

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

Drip—hiss—drip—hiss fall the raindrops / on the oaken log which burns, and steams, and smokes the ceiling beams. / Drip—hiss—the rain never stops.

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Idiom

When the stars threw down their spears, / And water'd heaven with their tears

• Idiom

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, / The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,

• Idiom

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

I do not care to talk to you although/ Your speech evokes a thousands sympathies

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

The sun was shining on the sea, / Shining with all his might;

• metaphor

• simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

After getting my report card, I knew it was time to hit the books.

• Personification

• metaphor

• Simile

• Idiom

The barbarians broke through the barricade.

• Personification

• Simile

• Idiom

• Alliteration

Don't worry about Joe / He's all bark and no bite.

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Idiom

• Alliteration

The river, curling softly by, / Whispers and dimples round it's gray stones.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole