English 11 Figurative Language Review

Achilles’ heel

• Allusion

• Paradox

• Alliteration

• Irony

Life is a highway

• Simile

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Life is like a box of chocolates

• Paradox

• Simile

• Under Statement

• Metaphor

A blinking red light from the truck’s turn-signal illuminated our darkened home

• Hyperbole

• Paradox

• Metaphor

• Sensory Detail

My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Paradox

• Idiom

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Under Statement

• Metaphor

A person works hard for decades, spending little to save money for retirement. The week before retiring, the person unexpectedly has a massive heart attack and dies.

• Simile

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• Irony

Break a leg!

• Allusion

• Idiom

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

Lazy lizards like lounging on the land.

• Idiom

• Paradox

• Allusion

• Alliteration

This is the beginning of the end.

• Paradox

• Hyperbole

• Under Statement

• Sensory Detail