Figurative Devices #1

The fire swallowed the entire forest.

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• personification

• alliteration

Silence your cellphone so that it does not beep during the movie.

• Assonance

• Personification

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

The people who still lived in town were stuck in place like wax statues.

• Repetition

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Words are the weapons with which we wound.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

She was young the way an actual young person was young.

• Simile

• Personification

• Repetition

• Assonance

My Cadillac was completely crashed in a car crash.

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Assonance

• Repetition

He ran around the camp, got damp, and cramped badly.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Assonance

Money is the only friend I can count on.

• Simile

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

I'm about as awesome as a flying giraffe.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

The children were roses grown in concrete gardens.

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Metaphor