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WorksheetsFigurative Language in Holiday Movies
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
"You sit on a thrown of lies."
--Elf
metaphor
simile
personification
oxymoron
"This fog's as thick as peanut butter!"
--Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer
metaphor
simile
personification
pun
"How can you say someone is great who's never had his picture on bubblegum cards?"
-A Charlie Brown Christmas
hyperbole
onomatopoeia
idiom
rhetorical question
"Now you go home and write 'I am very sorry for what I did to Frost' a hundred zillion times."
-Frosty the Snowman
hyperbole
onomatopoeia
oxymoron
imagery
"Their mouths will hang open a minute or two, then the Whos down in Whoville will all cry, 'Boo Hoo.'"
-How the Grinch Stole Christmas
hyperbole
onomatopoeia
personification
metaphor
"I am the Ghost of Christmas Present."
- A Christmas Carol
onomatopoeia
oxymoron
imagery
personification
"This house is so full of people it makes me sick. When I grow up and get married, I'm living alone."
-Home Alone
personification
oxymoron
simile
rhetorical question
"Oh, Phil, when are you gonna learn that girls like that are a dime a dozen?"
- White Christmas
oxymoron
metaphor
idiom
personification
"I am going to save Christmas! I heard Santa on the radio, and he said he needed Olive, the other reindeer. That's me."
-Olive, the Other Reindeer
idiom
simile
imagery
pun
"Every Who down in Who-ville, the tall and the small, will stand close together with Christmas bells ringing. They'll stand hand in hand, and those Whos will start singing."
-How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
imagery
hyperbole
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