Figurative language 10th grade | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

English 18 Public

Hyperbole, alliteration, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor

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My backpack weighs a ton

Hyperbole

15

I was late to school this morning because I had to wait for the train for 10 days

Hyperbole

15

Grandmother’s gloominess was the contagious kind, infecting every member of the household as fiercely as the bubonic plague

Simile

20

A hot swish of strings of silk

Alliteration

20

He played basketball nonstop all day, so hard our backboard glistened with sweat

Personification

20

The season’s clock stopped before the next strike, stopped

Alliteration

20

It knows the people are a tide, that swells and in time will ebb

Metaphor

20

The winds are walking overhead

Personification

20

This poem needs a better attitude: things could be worse

Personification

20

I am a tree with my root in the soil

Metaphor

20

The trees and flowers have been throwing their cool odors

Personification

15

My feet are killing me

Hyperbole

15

“If I don’t get to go the mall tonight, I’m literally going to die.”

Hyperbole

15

"You've got a smile that could light up this whole town."

Hyperbole

15

Then the trees may touch me for once, and the flowers have time for me.

Personification

15

"They were like popcorn kernels,” Lin tells me, “popping up all over the general area"

Simile

20