Figurative Language
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
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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Figurative Language
Fill in the Blanks
Fill in the blanks to complete these examples of figurative language:
a. Simile
His words cut like a ________.
b. Metaphor
My heartbeat is a __________.
c. Personification
The clouds ___________ across the sky.
d. Alliteration
Look! Lucy is leaping into the ________!
e. Idiom
That’s it! This is the last _______!
f. Pun
The captain’s motto was to seas the _______.
g. Hyperbole
She must be a __________ years old!
h. Onomatopoeia
________, I jumped into the pool and water went everywhere.
i. Repetition
They locked him up, never, _______, never to be released.
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