Read the sentences in the top box and then try and then decide what

type of figurative language it is.

Figurative Language

Rain runs rapidly through the stream.A. simileB. alliterationC. onomatopoeia

Answer: alliteration (the letter r is being alliterated)

The car’s muffler boomed loudly.A. AlliterationB. onomatopoeiaC. idiom

Answer: onomatopoeia (boomed is a sound word)

The wrinkled sea crawls to shore.A. simileB. metaphorC. personification

Answer: personification ( a person crawls not the sea)

The leaf gives way to the frost and Eden sinks to grief.A. simileB. allusionC. hyperbole

Answer: allusion (It refers to the Garden of Eden)

The stars danced in the heavens above.A. simileB. metaphorC. personification

Answer: personification (Stars don’t dance, but a person does!)

I would rather die that eat broccoli.A. allusionB. hyperboleC. idiom

Answer: hyperbole ( an exaggeration)

The sun is a ball of fire today.A. allusionB. metaphorC. personification

Answer: metaphor. Metaphors follow the format (______ is _______) or (_______) was (_________).

Do you hear the murmurs of the bees?A. hyperboleB. idiomC. onomatopoeia

Answer: onomatopoeia ( sound word)

The oak trees whispered softly in the breeze. A. idiomB. hyperboleC. personification

Answer: personification ( trees don’t whisper….a person does)

My love is like a red, red rose.A. personificationB. allusionC. simile

Answer: simile ( comparison using the word LIKE)

I was so surprised you could knock me over with a feather.A. simileB. idiomC. hyperbole

Answer: hyperbole (exaggeration…you can’t really knock someone over with a feather)

The crimson flower was surrounded by a field of yellow daisies swaying in the breeze beside a crashing waterfall.

A alliterationB. idiomC. imagery

Answer: imagery ( this sentence conjures up images of sight and sound)

Get out of my hair.A. hyperboleB. allusionC. idiom

Answer: idiom ( An expression that means something entirely different: It really means leave me alone)

Love is a battlefield.A. simileB. metaphorC. personification

Answer: metaphor __________ is __________

She is so sweet the honey bees swarm softly around her.A. allusionB. MetaphorC. alliteration

Answer: alliteration ( the letter s is being alliterated)

Give me a hand.A. hyperboleB. imageryC. idiom

Answer: idiom (a phrase that means something completely different than it seems- it doesn’t really mean to take your hand off and give it to me)