Figurative Language

The sunflowers nodded their yellow heads

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

The fly buzzed past us

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• personification

A funny exaggeration is called a/an

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

a comparison of two things without using like or as

• alliteration

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• idiom

We had to wait forever!

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

My life is a dream of wonders

• idiom

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

He clattered and clanged as he washed the dishes

• red-herring

• alliteration

• idiom

• personification

an expression that is not meant to be taken literally

• idiom

• allusion

• alliteration

• metaphor

A comparison using like or as

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• simile

• idiom

When you give human-like qualities to something that is not human

• alliteration

• simile

• personification

• metaphor