Restart Figurative Language

What type of figurative language is this?

That's something you can sink your teeth into.

• idiom

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

What type of figurative language is this?

...a close encounter with Chase Ambrose and lived to tell the tale.

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• simile

• hyperbole

What type of figurative language is this?

"Not in a million years," is her reply.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

What type of figurative language is this?

"This is the land of the carnivores, where lesser animals fear to tread."

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• alliteration

I mumble, I can't put my finger on it, but there's something about my dad that makes me nervous.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• idiom

You're so paranoid with every single step you're half expecting the floor to yawn open and swallow you whole.

• puns

• personification

• onomatopoeia

I can't shake the feeling that the building itself is out to get me

• puns

• personification

• onomatopoeia

10.What type of figurative language is being used in this sentence- I catch a glimpse of Shoshanna, scorching me with a look that would melt titanium.

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

Read this passage from chapter 13: ...Joel has every right to be angry with the curveball life has pitched him... What type of figurative language is used?

• simile

• hyperbole

• idiom

• personification

Read this passage from Chapter 19

“A whole museum full of ancient fossils and they

have to pick the nasty old crab who complains to

the nurses if his cookie is off center on the

plate.”

What two types of figurative language are used?

• simile and personification

• personification and metaphor

• metaphor and hyperbole

• hyperbole and simile