Figurative Language ELA

Define hyperbole.

• An overused phrase

• Its raining cats and dogs

• An over (excessive) exaggeration

• A comparison of two unlike things, using like or as

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet.

• alliteration

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• simile

These words are examples of what: Boom! Bang!

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• metaphor

This house is as clean as a whistle.

• simile

• metaphor

my dad roamed around the city looking for an inexpensive place to eat lunch.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

The baby monkey was stuck like Velcro to his mother as she swung from the branches high in the rain forest.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

The one-lane highway was a ribbon flowing across the endless desert.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

I am so sick of desserts that I couldn’t eat another cookie if my life depended on it.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

The cold air bit at our cheeks and noses leaving them tender and bright red.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Nancy worked her fingers to the bone trying to finish the baby’s quilt in one day.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole