Figures of Speech Answers

What is the example of hyperbole in this passage?

✔ metaphorsimilepersonificationhyperbole

metaphor✔ similepersonificationhyperbole

metaphorsimilepersonification✔ hyperbole

Identify each example as a metaphor, simile, personification, or hyperbole.

Based on the image, decide which type of figurative language each sentence uses.

metaphorsimile✔ personificationhyperbole

✔ metaphorsimilepersonificationhyperbole

metaphor✔ similepersonificationhyperbole

✔ Ben and a snakeBen and a plate of sandwichesa plate of sandwiches and a snake

They are scaly.✔ They swallow their food whole.They don’t have arms or legs.

Ben digested the sandwiches very slowly.✔ Ben ate the sandwiches very quickly.Ben ate the sandwiches without using his hands.

What kind of figurative language does the passage use?

Identify the literal meaning of this metaphor: “My dreams crumbled into ash.”

Which metaphor could replace the literal sentence “Simon’s year at school was sometimes hard and sometimes easy”?

Which simile could replace the literal sentence “The store was very crowded with people dashing around”?

They can struggle.✔ They can touch.They wear clothing.

My brother and his friends are wild animals!✔ Yesterday, they destroyed the kitchen beyond repair.a whole bottle of grape juice spilled on the floor

Use the context clues to figure out the meaning of the simile “sleeps like a dolphin.”

Use the context clues to figure out the meaning of the idiom “got the green light.”