Figurative language
Imagery
Descriptive language
100

Smooth as butter

Simile

100

The colors bled into a rainbow of color.

Visual imagery(sight)

100

Her eyes sparkled like sapphires in the dark.

What is this sentence describing?

Her eyes

200

The snow is a white blanket.

Metaphor

200

The sharp scent of wildflowers filled his nose.

Olfactory imagery(smell)

200

What is being described?

My Uber driver looked like a deflating airbag and sounded like talk radio on repeat

The uber driver

300

The clouds were happy

Personification

300

A loud shriek pierced his ears.

Auditory Imagery(sound)

300

Winter hit like a hammer that year, a jabbing cold so bitter that you thought you couldn't stand it.

What is being described? 


The cold, or the winter

400

Tucker is the best brawl stars player in the whole world.

Hyperbole

400

The flavor exploded in his mouth.

Gustatory Imgery(Taste)

400

What is being described?


The painting was a field of flowers, blues and yellows atop deep green stems that seemed to call the viewer in to play.

The painting of flowers.

500

Ice cream is my achilles heel.

Allusion

500

As he ran, the rough fabric of the sweater scraped against the raw wound in his side.

Tactile Imagery(touch)

500

What is being described?


"The idiosyncrasy of this town is smoke. It rolls sullenly in slow folds from the great chimneys of the iron-foundries, and settles down in black, slimy pools on the muddy streets. Smoke on the wharves, smoke on the dingy boats, on the yellow river--clinging in a coating of greasy soot to the house-front, the two faded poplars, the faces of the passers-by."

The smoke

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