Figurative Language Examples

The faucet has been leaking for so long, you would need scuba gear to fix it.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

She really gave him the cold shoulder this morning.

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• idiom

"Break a leg!" Mrs. Ditullio said cheerfully as her students made ready to go on stage for their first-ever play.

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

• idiom

"There's no reason to get so bent out of shape about it," she muttered when her friend yelled at her for eating one of her fries.

• hyperbole

• idiom

• imagery

• personification

Her grandmother's apartment was neat and tidy, and it smelled like odd mix of peppermints and lemon cleaner.

• imagery

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• idiom

The fuzzy, yellow chick hopped into her hands.

• metaphor

• personification

• imagery

• idiom

a comparison of two things using the words “like” or “as” 

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Irony

• Oxymoron

Her eyes were diamonds; always bright and sparkling!

• Metaphor

• Pun

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

giving human qualities to animals or inanimate objects

• Simile

• Irony

• Personification

• Oxymoron

a phrase that has two opposite words

• Simile

• Irony

• Personification

• Oxymoron