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This document provides examples and explanations of different types of figurative language, including similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration, idioms, puns, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, and repetition. Learners are asked to identify the type of figurative language used in sentences and match examples to the correct figurative language category. The document also includes practice filling in examples of different figurative language techniques.

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This document provides examples and explanations of different types of figurative language, including similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration, idioms, puns, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, and repetition. Learners are asked to identify the type of figurative language used in sentences and match examples to the correct figurative language category. The document also includes practice filling in examples of different figurative language techniques.

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Figurative Language - Answers

Identifying Figurative Language


For each example below, circle what type of figurative language is being used.

a. Your eyes sparkle like diamonds.


Metaphor Simile Alliteration

b. The wild woolly walrus waits, wondering when we will pass by.
Personification Alliteration Assonance

c. His brain is the size of a pea.


Personification Hyperbole Idiom

d. Her hair was a flowing golden river.


Metaphor Assonance Onomatopoeia

e. Crack! The ringleader’s whip broke the silence.


Onomatopoeia Assonance Pun

f. The monster spoke in a low mellow tone.


Assonance Pun Idiom

g. Hold your horses, I’m coming!


Idiom Pun Repetition

h. What do you call a knight who is afraid to fight? Sir Render


Hyperbole Assonance Pun

i. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.


Pun Personification Repetition

j. The flowers begged for water.


Pun Hyperbole Personification

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Figurative Language - Answers

Matching Figurative Language to an Example


Draw a line to match the example to the type of figurative language being used.

Figurative language Examples

Metaphor I bee-leaf in you!

Simile She is as strong as an ox!

I ate five thousand pancakes for


Personification breakfast!

Steve saved seven seagulls.


Alliteration

It’s time to hit the hay.


Idiom

I’ll take a tray for Taylor the sailor.


Hyperbole

The beach is calling to me.


Pun

BOOM! The fireworks exploded above


me.
Repetition

He’s a walking encyclopedia.


Assonance
I do not like it anywhere, I do not
want it over there, I do not want it,
Onomatopoeia I do not care!

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Fill in the Blanks


Fill in the blanks to complete these examples of figurative language:

a. Simile
His words cut like a knife.

b. Metaphor
My heartbeat is a drum.

c. Personification
The clouds skipped across the sky.

d. Alliteration
Look! Lucy is leaping into the lake!

e. Idiom
That’s it! This is the last straw!

f. Pun
The captain’s motto was to seas the day.

g. Hyperbole
She must be a million years old!

h. Onomatopoeia
Splash, I jumped into the pool and water went everywhere.

i. Repetition
They locked him up, never, never, never to be released.

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