Review w/new figurative language examples

"You sit on a thrown of lies."

--Elf

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• oxymoron

"This fog's as thick as peanut butter!"

--Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• pun

"How can you say someone is great who's never had his picture on bubblegum cards?"

-A Charlie Brown Christmas

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• rhetorical question

"Now you go home and write 'I am very sorry for what I did to Frost' a hundred zillion times."

-Frosty the Snowman

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron

• imagery

"Their mouths will hang open a minute or two, then the Whos down in Whoville will all cry, 'Boo Hoo.'"

-How the Grinch Stole Christmas

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• metaphor

"I am the Ghost of Christmas Present."

- A Christmas Carol

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron

• imagery

• personification

"This house is so full of people it makes me sick. When I grow up and get married, I'm living alone."

-Home Alone

• personification

• oxymoron

• simile

• rhetorical question

"Oh, Phil, when are you gonna learn that girls like that are a dime a dozen?"

- White Christmas

• oxymoron

• metaphor

• idiom

• personification

"Every Who down in Who-ville, the tall and the small, will stand close together with Christmas bells ringing. They'll stand hand in hand, and those Whos will start singing."

-How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

• imagery

• hyperbole

• simile

• pun