Simile, Hyperbole, Metaphor, Idioms, Personification

Name a type 1

100

Emma's birthday's tomorrow, and she wants a birthday present, so her mom is letting the cat out of the bag.

Idioms

200

The skyscraper was tall enough to touch the moon.

Personification

300

A child runs away from someone throwing a water balloon at him and falls into the pool.

Irony

400

A pipe is going to burst, but before it does, the author writes a scene where the family notices a small dark spot on the ceiling, but ignores it.

Foreshadowing

500

The king's nose is 3 feet long.

Hyperbole

Name a type 2

100

We are in the cockpit of an airplane. The plane hits turbulence and the captain struggles to regain control. It doesn’t last long, and everything is soon seemingly fine again…

But the reader implicitly understands that this is going to be anything but a trouble-free flight.

Foreshadowing

200

1. After looking at a student’s poor test score, the teacher says, “You will surely finish the year with highest honors”.

Irony

300

I've told you a million times to stop talking.

Personification

400

This morning Christopher got up on the wrong side of the bed.

Idioms

500

The food was so hot my ears were smoking.

Hyperbole

Name a type 3

100

The leaves were dancing in the wind.

Personification

200

The day before thanksgiving Zach, Daniel, Ms. Alvarez, and Ms.'R' were sitting on top of the world.

Idioms

300

Samantha must have walked a hundred miles.

Hyperbole

400

1. A boss, the owner of a big construction firm, cannot fix his house’s broken ceiling.

Irony

500

We are in a Wild West saloon. The hero walks in and orders a drink. Over in the corner, the baddie watches him drink. As the hero leaves, the bad guy spits on the floor. And that is it…

But we know that their next meeting will probably not be so uneventful.

Foreshadowing

Name a type 4

100

Maya had a frog in her throat for 6 days.

Idioms

200

The angry sky roared and threw lightning in the air.

Personification

300

I'm so tired I can sleep for a year.

Hyperbole

400

A teenage girl leaves the house for an evening out with her friends. Her mother makes her promise to be back before midnight. The girl kisses her mother and tells her she worries too much. She’ll be fine, she says. But us readers know she won’t be!

Foreshadowing

500

Looking at her son's messy room, Mom says, "Wow, you could win an award for cleanliness!"

Irony

Definitions

100

Personification

What is giving non-human things human characteristics.

200

Hyperbole

What is an extreme exaggeration.

300

Foreshadowing

What is to give an indication or hint of what is to come later in the story. 

400

Irony

What is when something happens that is opposite from what is expected. 

500

Idiom

Idioms are word combinations that have a different figurative meaning than the literal meanings of each word or phrase.  They are often common phrases.