Figurative Language

The alligator's teeth are white daggers is a:

• simile

• metaphor

The snow was as white as a cloud.

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

The snow danced around in the wind.

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

Gabby gulped down the Mountain Dew.

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• hyperbole

Sally sold seashells by the seashore.

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• alliteration

• simile

He told the actors to "break a leg" for good luck before the play began.

• hyperbole

• idiom

• metophor

• simile

Match the following:

• idiom

• Giving human qualities to non-humans like animal or objects

• alliteration

• the repetition of the same beginning sound

• personification

• A weird expression that means something other than what it actually says

• metaphor

• Comparison WITHOUT using "like" or "as"

Which is an example of a metaphor?

• My mouth was as dry as the desert.

• It is very dry in the desert.

• My mouth was a desert.

What is this an example of? My dad snores like a chainsaw.

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• personification

What is this an example of? Lightning danced across the sky.

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• personification

• hyperbole