Figurative Language

Handsome Harry hired hundreds of hippos for Hanukkah.

• alliteration
• personification
• metaphor
• pun

A dog not only has a fur coat but pants.

• pun
• couplet
• alliteration
• hyperbole

If the phone rings,/Hope then still clings.

• pun
• couplet
• personification
• simile

The daffodils nodded their yellow heads at the walkers.

• hyperbole
• pun
• simile
• personification

I nearly died laughing!

• alliteration
• hyperbole
• assonance
• metaphor

His feet were as big as boats

• metaphor
• pun
• hyperbole
• couplet

Her hair is honey flowing down her back.

• pun
• hyperbole
• simile
• methaphor

The rain kissed my cheeks as it fell.

• personification
• simile
• hyperbole
• alliteration

The willow is like an etching.

• personification
• simile
• hyperbole
• alliteration

I tried a thousand times.

• personification
• simile
• hyperbole
• alliteration