Figure of Speech

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metephor

• Personification

The streets are calling me.

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Irony

My baby brother is a cute little teddy bear.

• Irony

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

Her smile bright like the sun.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

A comparison of two unlike things using the word like or as.

• Irony

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

Giving human qualities to nonhumans like objects, or ideas.

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Irony

• Personification

Words whose sounds suggest their meaning.

• Irony

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

Conveys the opposite of what is said.

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Irony

• Personification

An exaggeration of what is being expressed.

• Irony

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

I'm so tired I could sleep a year.

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification