Analyzing the Impact of Figurative Language in Context

The west wind dances down the road.

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

A train is a dragon that roars through the dark.

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

The sun smiled after the rain stopped.

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

She’s as tiny as a mouse.

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

Her blonde hair shined like the sun.

• Personification

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

The lightweight fighter lost so much weight, he looked as thin as a rail.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

When the pitcher finished nine innings, he was hungry enough to eat a horse.

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

I heard the ping of the pickle ball during the volley.

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

“Crack” went the bat as the pitcher hit a home run.

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• metaphor

My mom told me to zip my lips.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Idiom

• Personification