A Feast of Figurative Language

What type of figurative language is being used?

"The apples in that pie are as sweet as honey."

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

What type of figurative language is being used?

"I think the job of washing the huge pile of dishes after Thanksgiving dinner is torture."

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

What type of figurative language is being used?

"Having the whole family home for dinner sometimes seems like a circus."

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

What type of figurative language is being used?

"The flavor of the turkey was heaven in my mouth."

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

What type of figurative language is being used?

"Their prayers of thanks sounded like a sweet melody."

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

What type of figurative language is being used?

"I'm starving! I'm definitely going to eat at least 15 apple pies, 3 turkeys, and 6 portions of mashed potatoes!"

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

Tom Turkey tended to tremble.

• personification

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

Turkey Tom trotted over to our table.

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

My mom told me a million times not to chew with my mouth open.

• pun

• idiom

• hyperbole

• alliteration

I was as worried as a turkey on Thanksgiving before my math test.

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification