Figurative Language Task Cards

“I am dying to see you again!” Grandma said to me on the phone.

• metaphor

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• personification

“If you whisper one more word to Walter, you will be in trouble!”

• alliteration

• simile

• personification

• idiom

“Have you gargled with mouthwash yet?” Mom asked.

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• idiom

“Your last chance is walking out the door,” Mr. Banks warned his students.

• metaphor

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• personification

“I want you to get that chip off your shoulder right now!” the coach yelled.

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• idiom

My silly brother is proud of the fact that he can burp the alphabet.

• personification

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

Emily was working against the clock to finish the test before the screen went black.

• idiom

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

When she was supposed to recite her first line of the play, she was a statue.

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

He is as slow as molasses when it comes to getting ready for school in the morning.

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• idiom

Mr. Henson was absent all last week because he had a severe case of the flu. His classroom was a circus while he was gone.

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• idiom