Figurative Language Practice

Whoosh went the chilly wind as it swept through the graveyard.

• alliteration

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Her costume was a cloud of black feathers, drifting through the darkness.

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

The witch's hat pointed toward the sky like an accusing finger.

• simile

• personification

• idiom

• metaphor

His scream was so loud it could wake the dead.

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• hyperbole

• simile

I was scared stiff when I saw the shadow in my room.

• metaphor

• idiom

• simile

• personfication

Creepy cobwebs clung to the corners of the haunted house.

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• idiom

• hyperbole

Working the graveyard shift at the old inn is extra creepy around Halloween.

• idiom

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Thump, thump, thump… footsteps approached from the dark hallway.

• personification

• simile

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

The black cat was so fast, it could outrun lightning.

• idiom

• alliteration

• simile

• hyperbole

The spider’s web was a silken trap, waiting to catch its next unlucky visitor.

• metaphor

• alliteration

• idiom

• hyperbole