Figurative Language

Choose 1:  I need to touch base with my teachers in homeroom, because I will be leaving early for an appointment. What is the literary term?

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

The exhausted teacher exclaimed, "This school day will never end."

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

The stars winked at me and then they playfully danced in the moonlit sky.

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

• idiom

New York City, with its constant buzz and energy is like a beehive of activity, teeming with people and life.

• metaphor

• simile

• idiom

• personification

The traffic on the Garden State Parkway is a daily nightmare.

• metaphor

• simile

• idiom

• personification

Time is not a pond or a lake. Time is a river.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Her smile was a mile wide.

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification

The test did not scare her. She was as cool as a cucumber.

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personfication

On the hottest day of summer. The clouds proved to be great friends.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

This morning was rough. I was feeling under the weather again.

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom

• simile