Figurative Language High School

Identify the metaphor

• My heart was a bucket full of joy after all the sweet compliments.
• My heart is a muscle.
• My heart is like a hand pump pushing blood all throughout my body.
• My heart is like a muscle.

Identify the simile

• I like apples.
• Apples taste sweet.
• You're the apple of my eye.
• This apple is as sweet as candy.

You are as brave as a lion.

• Simile

• Metaphor

My homework is so hard my brain is going to explode.

• alliteration
• simile
• idiom
• hyperbole

She is as sweet as pie!

• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• alliteration

Corey shoots the ball and....BAM. It bricks off the backboard.

• onomatopoeia
• idiom
• hyperbole
• simile

The papers jumped from Miss Clanton's desk when she opened the window.

• hyperbole
• personification
• euphemism
• metaphor

The rain wept down the window during the storm.

• alliteration
• personification
• metaphor
• euphemism

"When pigs fly" is a term people use when they say something will never happen.

• alliteration
• euphemism
• metaphor
• idiom

George is a walking dictionary. He knows everything!

• euphemism
• personification
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia