Figurative Speech

I waited a million years for my ride to get to the house.

• alliteration

• repetition

• idiom

• hyperbole

Which of these is a dramatic overexaggerating?

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

Which is repeating the same initial letter, sound, or group of sounds in a series of words?

• idiom

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

Giving human characteristics to an object or animal.

• idiom

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

Comparing two things USING the words like or as.

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

Comparing something by saying something IS something else. (not using like or as)

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• verb

Izahik can run as fast as lightning.

• simile

• personification

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

Willow, Alli, and Elle are three peas in a pod.

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

Ms. Demant heard the last taco calling her name.

• idiom

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

"I am so hungry I could eat a horse!" yelled Carver.

• Hyperbole

• idiom

• simile

• metaphor