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What type of figurative language is this?
She cried like a baby.
Simile
What type of figurative language is this?
The bee buzzed all day.
Onomatopoeia
What type of figurative language is this?
My alarm clock yelled at me.
Personification
What type of figurative language is this?
The bird chirped in the tree.
Onomatopoeia
What type of figurative language is this?
The leaves danced in the wind.
Personification
What type of figurative language is this?
The acorn plopped into the puddle.
Onomatopoeia
What type of figurative language is this?
This food is hotter than the sun!
Hyperbole
What type of figurative language is this?
The breeze whistled in the night sky.
Personification
What does this figurative language mean?
Your explanation is as clear as mud.
Simile
It means your explanation is NOT clear, or it is confusing.
What type of figurative language is this?
He is as strong as an ox.
Simile
What type of figurative language is this?
It was clear as crystal.
Simile
What type of figurative language is this?
She ran as fast as a cheetah.
Simile
What type of figurative language is this?
He was as skinny as a rail.
Hyperbole or Simile
What type of figurative language is this?
I was so tired I was in a coma.
Hyperbole
What does this figurative language mean?
Watching the show was like watching grass grow.
It means the show was very slow moving and boring.
"Watching the game was like watching paint dry."
What type of figurative language is this?
I jumped back as the snake hissed at me.
Onomatopoeia
What type of figurative language is this?
I heard the last piece of pie calling my name.
What does this figurative language mean?
You're a couch potato?
Personification
It means you are lazy and don't move around.
What type of figurative language is this?
The mountain was so high it reached the stars.
Hyperbole
What type of figurative language is this?
I ordered a new car online with the click of a mouse.
Onomatopoeia
What type of figurative language uses "like" or "as"?
Simile
What type of figurative language uses human qualities for non-human items.
Personification
What does this figurative language mean?
Time is money.
When you spend time doing something it is like spending money because it is time spent when you are NOT making money.
You're time is valuable.
What type of figurative language suggests the sound that it describes in the word?
Onomatopoeia
What type of figurative language has an exaggerated statement or claim?
Hyperbole