Figure of Speech

Mr. Brown said we have to play it by ear.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Metaphor

Will you please hold your horses?

• Idiom 

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

I'm so hungry, I could eat a whole elephant.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Idiom

Sara heard the last piece of pie calling her name.

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Personification

• Metaphor

He was as honest as Abraham Lincoln.

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Idiom

In the eastern sky, there was a patch like a rug laid for the feet of the coming Sun.

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Simile

That child is a bear when he is sleepy.

• Simile

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

A figure of speech is...

• what the author literally means

• a non-literal way of saying something

• a familiar expression

• something only writers use

This figure of speech make a direct comparison using two unlike things.

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

This figure of speech uses exaggeration to make its point.

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole