Figurative Language

The ballerina was a graceful as a swan.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• idiom

After running a marathon, her legs were jello.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• idiom

The grass danced in the wind during the summer.

• metaphor

• simile

• personifcation

• idiom

Her air conditioner broke and her house is an oven.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• idiom

Take your umbrella...it's raining cats and dogs!

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• idiom

The snow in the blizzard whipped angrily across the people's face.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• idiom

The kids scattered like ants after they broke the window.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• idiom

Let's call it a day.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• idiom

Beth has hair and eyes as dark as the night sky.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• idiom

My alarm clock yells at me every morning to wake up!

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• idiom