Name: ______________________
Date: ______________________
Figurative Language
Directions: Read each statement carefully and choose the figure of speech that best describes it.
1. The wind during last night’s thunderstorm made the tree branches bang continuously against
the window.
Personification
Idiom
Simile
Metaphor
2. Mom made enough food to feed an entire army.
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Alliteration
3. The falling snow covered the entire neighborhood in a soft white blanket.
Simile
Personification
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
4. After we lost the game, my coach told me to keep my chin up.
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Idiom
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Metaphor
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
5. I froze when I heard a bee buzz near my ear.
Idiom
Metaphor
6. I can smell pizza from over a mile away.
Hyperbole
Simile
7. Silly sally sings sad songs on Saturdays and Sundays.
Idiom
Metaphor
8. Every morning my dad is like a bear waking from hibernation.
Personification
Alliteration
Metaphor
Simile
9. It is common to tell actors to break a leg before they go on stage.
Metaphor
Idiom
Personification
Onomatopoeia
10. Everyone always says my grandma is as sweet as honey.
Personification
Metaphor
Simile
Idiom
©Mr. & Mrs. Brightside
Name: ______________________
Date: ______________________
11. The empty house looked lonely and sad.
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Idiom
12. If you want to make a cat purr, just rub it behind the ear.
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Simile
Idiom
Alliteration
Metaphor
13. My cat is one big ball of fur.
Personification
14. The clouds looked like cotton candy floating in the sky.
Personification
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
15. Every time I shot the ball into the hoop all you heard was swoosh.
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Alliteration
16. Dad didn’t get me the shoes I wanted because they cost an arm and a leg.
Metaphor
Idiom
Personification
Simile
17. In order for me to clean my room, my mom has to tell me a million times.
Simile
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Idiom
18. Dad thinks he is a race car driver when he gets on the highway.
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Metaphor
Simile
19. My mom makes me meatloaf on Mondays.
Idiom
Metaphor
20. We live in a city that never sleeps.
Personification
Alliteration
©Mr. & Mrs. Brightside
Name: ______________________
Date: ______________________
Figurative Language
Answer Key
1.
A
11.
C
2. B
12. B
3. A
13. D
4. D
14. C
5. C
15. A
6. A
16. B
7. D
17. B
8. D
18. C
9. B
19. D
10. C
20. A