Figurative Language

What type of figurative language compares two unlike things WITHOUT the use of "like" or "as?"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

My father was the sun and the moon to me.

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Which type of figurative language gives human qualities to something nonhuman.

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Personification

She loved him so much that her heart felt like it could burst.

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

Which sentence below uses onomatopoeia?

• The tree angrily shook her branches.

• Her eyes are diamonds in the night.

• She was awfully nice to us yesterday.

• The car zoomed right past us.

Stop beating around the bush and tell me how you really feel!

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

Which sentence uses an idiom?

• My mom ordered the jumbo shrimp.

• That is the last straw.

• Steve is as fierce as a lion.

• Terry told Tom to text him later.

The sunflowers nodded their yellow heads.

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Personification

Jacob and Sara have a love hate relationship.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Onomatopoeia

Barry bounced the basketball all the way home.

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Alliteration