Practice
What type of figurative language does each sentence use?
1. Would you like to draw money? Here is a pencil.
2. The cat was as dark as the night.
3. Tom the tiger talked to Todd.
4. Break a leg
5. Boing
6. The path meandered down the hill.
7. He is a thousand years old.
8. Life is a roller coaster.
9. He is as big as the Earth.
10. The car crashed into the cave.
Answer Key
1. pun
2. simile
3. Alliteration
4. idiom
5. onomatopoeia
6. personification
7. hyperbole
8. metaphor
9. simile
10. alliteration
1. Would you like to draw money? Here is a pencil.
2. The cat was as dark as the night.
3. Tom the tiger talked to Todd.
4. Break a leg
5. Boing
6. The path meandered down the hill.
7. He is a thousand years old.
8. Life is a roller coaster.
9. He is as big as the Earth.
10. The car crashed into the cave.
Answer Key
1. pun
2. simile
3. Alliteration
4. idiom
5. onomatopoeia
6. personification
7. hyperbole
8. metaphor
9. simile
10. alliteration