Figure of Speech Review

His new shoes were so big they looked like boats.

• alliteration

• simile

• idiom

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Before the storm, the sky got as dark as midnight.

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopeia

• idiom

The big, brown bear bounded over the stream.

• onomatopeia

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• idiom

The clang of the bell woke the sleeping dog.

• onomatopeia

• metaphor

• hyperbol

• alliteration

Life is a roller coaster.

• simile

• idiom

• alliteration

• metaphor

The bright, blue balls looked gorgeous on the Christmas tree.

• idiom

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

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My love is a red, red rose

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopeia

Ker-blam went the door as the wind blew it closed.

• alliteraton

• simile

• onomatopeia

• hyperbole