Figurative Language (Readel)

When you, my Dear, are away, away, / How wearily goes the day.

A year drags after morning, and night / Starts another year

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• hyperbole

Chicago is a city that is fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action.

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• repetition

Gracefully she sat down sideways, / With a simper smile

• rhyme

• rhyme

• metaphor

• alliteration

Drip—hiss—drip—hiss— fall the raindrops.

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• personification

The fountain tossed its water, / Up and up, like silver marbles.

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• idiom

Falstaff sweats to death, as he walks along; / Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• idiom

Lives of great men remind us / We can make our lives sublime;

And, departing, leave behind us / Footprints on the sands of time.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

His sorrow goes / Like mountain snows / In waters sweet and clear,

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• repetition

All night long with rush and lull / The rain kept drumming on the roof

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

The child with / her infinite energy / would run / her parents to / the ground

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification