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English 81 Public

Figurative Language

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Rita heard the last piece of pie calling her name.

personification

My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning.

personification

Figurative language that uses like or as to directly compare two unlike things.

simile

Figurative language that uses like or as to directly compare two unlike things.

She had a voice like an unoiled gate, but somehow not unpleaseant.

simile

His nostrils flared; he was breathing like a picadored bull.

simile

the bus bounced like an empty cracker box on wheels.

simile

She was as sly as a fox.

simile

That knife is as sharp as a razor.

simile

She's as cold as ice.

simile

Cunning like a fox.

simile

Create a sentence to describe this picture. Use any of the following types of figurative language. Then identify the kind of figurative language that you used. Alliteration, Hyperbole, Onomatopoeia, Simile, Metaphor, Idiom, Personifica

Answers may vary

1. The rain falls like the sun, rising upon the mountains.

simile

2. The fly buzzed past us.

onomatopoeia

3. The sunflowers nodded their yellow heads.

personification

4. It really burned me up when you yelled at me.

idiom