Figurative Language devices

"I must be cruel to be kind."

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

• Paradox

• Simile

Does it dry up

like a raisin in the sun?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

“Take some more tea,” the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. 

“I’ve had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone, “so I can’t take more.”

“You mean you can’t take less” said the Hatter, “It’s very easy to take more than nothing.”

• Personification

• Paradox

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow

That I shall say good night till it be morrow.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Paradox

• Oxymoron

The golden rule is there are no golden rules

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Paradox

• Alliteration

And this maiden she lived with no other thought

Than to love and be loved by me.

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Paradox

• Simile

Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.

• Paradox

• Alliteration

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

"Hope" is the thing with feathers / that perches in the soul / and sings the tune without the words / and never stops at all

• Allusion

• Paradox

• Simile

• Metaphor

Mister Sun wakes up at dawn, / Puts his golden slippers on

• Oxymoron

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

I can't see my shirt - it's so covered in dirt, / And my ears have enough to grow flowers.

• Hyperbole

• Paradox

• Allusion

• Simile