WorksheetsFigurative language
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
My mother’s kitchen was like a holy place: you couldn’t wear your shoes, you had to sit there at a certain time, and occasionally we’d pray.
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Antithesis
Charlie gazed hopelessly at the endless pile of bills stretching across the counter.
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
Justice is blind and, at times, deaf.
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
The typical teenage boy’s room is a disaster area.
Metaphor
Personification
Oxymoron
Antithesis
The acorn plopped into the puddle.
Personification
Oxymoron
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
The buzzing bee flew over my head.
Personification
Pun
Onomatopoeia
Repetition
I can smell pizza from a mile away.
Hyperbole
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
The plants in her house silently begged to be watered
Oxymoron
Hyperbole
Personification
Simile
I don’t trust stairs because they’re always up to something.
Hyperbole
Pun
Oxymoron
Antithesis
To err is human; to forgive divine.
Onomatopoeia
Antithesis
Personification
Metaphor
'Oh, Shakespeare! Where art thou?
Metaphor
Antithesis
Apostrophe
Personification
That's an impossible solution.
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Antithesis
Pun
