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WorksheetsFigure of Speech
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 28mins
Mrs. Davis was sitting by her pond listening to the frogs croak.
Wow, Hailie's race car zoomed past the finish line.
Saya was doing the dishes and the clanging pots awoke the baby.
The street cars are like frosted cakes covered with snowflakes.
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Alliteration
The west wind dances down the road.
Simile
Personification
Hyperbole
Alliteration
She’s as tiny as a mouse.
Metaphor
Alliteration
Simile
Oxymoron
Her blonde hair shined like the sun.
Alliteration
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
The lightweight fighter lost so much weight, he looked as thin as a rail.
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
Onomatopeia
When the pitcher finished nine innings, he was hungry enough to eat a horse.
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
Simile
Metaphor
The ice in the arena was as smooth as glass.
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Simile
Oxymoron
The kite drank the wind and laughed across the sky.
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Oxymoron
The trophy glistened like gold in the sun during the awards ceremony.
Metaphor
Simile
Alliteration
Oxymoron
The hockey player lost his control when the puck ran across the ice.
Oxymoron
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
The snow on the ski hill was powdered sugar.
Simile
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Oxymoron
The coach was as upset as a lion when his team lost the game.
Oxymoron
Simile
Alliteration
Hyperbole
The snowmobile was a rocket in the newly fallen snow.
Simile
Metaphor
Oxymoron
Hyperbole
I’d catch a grenade for you.
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Alliteration
A comparison of two unlike things that have something in common.
Uses LIKE or AS.
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Alliteration
A comparison of two unlike things that have something in common.
NO like or as.
Simile
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Alliteration
An over exaggeration.
Hyperbole
Simile
Alliteration
Metaphor
What type of figurative language is being used in the sentence below?
The students were as busy as bees as they worked to finish their final project for the school year.
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Alliteration
What type of figurative language is being used in the sentence below?
The walker was a turtle when she made her way through the race.
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Metaphor
What type of figurative language is being used in the sentence below?
The heater yelled as it came on for the first time for the winter.
Alliteration
Personification
Metaphor
Simile
What type of figurative language is being used in the sentence below?
It took me a hundred years to finish all of my homework last night.
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Personification
What type of figurative language is being used in the sentence below?
Boom! The fireworks cracked above in the sky to celebrate the Fourth of July.
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Simile
What does the sentence below actually mean?
Lightning danced across the sky.
The lightning was at a dance party.
The lightning was bad at dancing.
There was a lot of lightning in the sky during a storm.
There was no lightning in the sky.
What does the sentence below actually mean?
The car complained as the key was roughly turned in its ignition.
The car was not starting and making noises.
The car was a big complainer.
The car started up perfectly normal.
The car hurt the person inside.
His heart was a block of ice.
The cup danced joyfully across the table.
heavy as a rock
