Figurative Language Practice

"The ocean wave picked her up and slammed her onto the beach" is an example of...

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personification

"She sat in the library as quiet and timid as a mouse" is an example of...

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

"This is the worst day anyone has ever had" is an example of...

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• idiom

"That soccer player is a rhino trampling over his opponents" is an example of...

• simile

• idiom

• metaphor

• hyperbole

"The library after hours was as silent as the grave" is an example of...

• idiom

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

"The wind sang a song to the swaying trees" is an example of...

• idiom

• hyperbole

• personification

• metaphor

Don’t wage a war of words against the world.

• alliteration

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

"Cows say moo and pigs say oink" is an example of...

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

"My mean neighbor is such a rat" is an example of...

• simile

• alliteration

• oxymoron

• metaphor

"He crashed out when he realized he would be getting silent lunch for his behavior" is an example of...

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• idiom