WorksheetsFigurative Language: Freak the Mighty
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 13mins
Except that it's not a paper thing. It's a plastic bird, light as a feather.
simile
metaphor
idiom
hyperbole
The little freak is staring at me bug-eyed.
simile
metaphor
idiom
hyperbole
That's how he talked, like right out of a dictionary.
hyperbole
idiom
simile
analogy
You can hear him wheezing or I guess you'd call it panting, like a dog does on a hot day.
metaphor
hyperbole
simile
analogy
When he's talking, you can't take your eyes off of him.
metaphor
idiom
hyperbole
pun
Freak sighs, rolls his eyes, "Ah, yes," he says. "Television, the opiate of the massives."
simile
analogy
idiom
metaphor
I watch tons of tube, but I also read tons of books, so I can figure out what's true and what's fake, which isn't always easy.
hyperbole
idiom
irony
metaphor
"The Fair Gwen," he says. "I gotta beam out of here."
idiom
metaphor
simile
hyperbole
--no, you are a cloud, the kind you see in the sky on a windy day.
idiom
simile
metaphor
hyperbole
Is it really such a big deal for a boy to look like his father?
pun
idiom
metaphor
personification
"Close Encounter of the Turd Kind"
irony
metaphor
idiom
pun
He shouts as the white sparkles glitter down over the pond and the shells go womp-womp-womp and everybody goes oooooh.
analogy
onomatopoeia
pesonification
irony
Which one is a hyperbole?
You mean you couldn't take him, and I was giving him lip?
Why should it make a difference just because about a million people show up to watch the rockets' red glare over that smelly pond?
I can't fall down, that's how stiff it is. I"m like a big fence post.
I'll bet we've gone ten miles at least, because my legs think it's a hundred.
Which one is an analogy?
He says exactly the same thing every single morning, until it's like he's an alarm clock.
I'll bet you anything she's a damsel in distress.
You'd never know anybody lived here, let alone a whole blockful of people, it's like we're on an empty planet or something.
By the time I polish off the ice cream, Grim is handing me coffee in a china cup, from the set they never use.
Which one uses a pun?
The snowman keeps saying, "Cool. Cool."
You hit the nail on the head, son.
He gives me a thumbs-up and says, "cool."
Freak goes, "Sssssh! The Fair Gwen must not know the plan."
Which one is an example of irony?
Which one shows onomatopoeia?
All are examples of symbolism except for...
Which one is a hyperbole?
Which is an example of an idiom?
