Halloween Figurative Language

My friend tried to convince me to give him all of my halloween candy but I told him, "Ha, over my dead body."

• simile

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• idiom

• personification

The mummy appeared from the crypt and moved towards the archeologist with a deafening silence.

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• metaphor

• oxymoron

The man, frightened by the phantom haunting the theatre, often heard footsteps under the stage when there was a full moon.

• metaphor

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron

• personification

Witches on broomsticks filled the sky. The boy looked up, his mouth dropped open in a silent scream.

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• oxymoron

• alliteration

• simile

When the zombie moved, Bobby screamed so loud the people in the next town could hear him!

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

The candle in the jack-o-lantern shimmered like a thousand little twinkling lights.

• mettaphor

• simile

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

Bang! The door slammed behind Katy when she ran in the house after trick-or-treating.

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• hyperbole

My eyes bugged out of my head when I saw the scary costumes at the haunted house.

• metaphor

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• simile

The kids were thrilled to have a million pieces of candy in their Halloween treat bags!

• simile

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• personification

The graves stared up at us as we ran through the cemetery to get home.

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia