Figurative Language (created by Year 8)

My heart broke into a million pieces when I realised what had happened.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

You look like an orange being peeled.

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

• symbolism

I'm like a fish; I can't remember what I did today.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Don't cry over spilt milk

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Symbolism

• Idiom

He smiled at us like the sun smiles at the earth.

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• symbolism

After the million times I lost, I finally won.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

• Idiom

Cry like the wind

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• symbolism

The grass is always greener on the other side.

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Personification

• Symbolism

The grass started dancing as the wind sang its song.

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• symbolism

The white horses rode to the shore and then descended back into the waves.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• symbolism