Explaining Figurative Language

I was happy to put my John Handcock on the petition

• analogy

• hyperbole

• personification

• Allusion

Canary is to yellow as polar bear is to white

• analogy

• Simlie

• Metaphor

• oxymoron

I passed the test by the skin of my teeth

• oxymoron

• Idiom

• personification

• allusion

There were a million bees in my tiny little garden.

• hyperbole

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

Amazing acrobats act arrogantly.

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• alliteration

• Fact

The tree branch reached but couldn’t grab the clouds.

• metaphor

• personification

• opinion

• onomatopoeia

When Elena heard the pop-pop-pop in the street, she immediately knew something was wrong.

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• exaggeration

• simile

the same beginning sound occurs in several words in a row.

• metaphor

• analogy

• alliteration

• idiom

a comparison of 2 unlike things using like or as.

• personification

• allusion

• simile

• hyperbole

a comparison statement to show how things are related.

• analogy

• alliteration

• allusion

• idiom