Figurative Language Examples Review

The eagle represents strength and freedom.

• oxymoron

• cliche

• symbol

• pun

He's as busy as a bee.

• cliche

• irony

• hyperbole

• metaphor

How now brown cow

• allitertion

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• assonance

A boiled egg every morning is hard to beat.

• simile

• pun

• metaphor

• oxymoron

She's as cool as a cucumber.

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• assonance

deafening silence

• pun

• alliteration

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

She's a snake and can't be trusted.

• assonance

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

He hit the books.

• idiom

• irony

• alliteration

• personification

The dentist's child had false teeth.

• idiom

• mageryi

• irony

• symbol

My backpack weighs a ton!

• alliteration

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• imagery