| A | B |
|---|
| I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse right now. | hyperbole |
| Life is a journey. | metaphor |
| Mr. Jones is an early bird. | metaphor |
| as blind as a bat | simile |
| as stubborn as a mule | simile |
| These books in your bag weigh a ton. | hyperbole |
| I'm really busy, I am doing like ten million things at the same time. | hyperbole |
| The car engine coughed and sputtered when it started during the blizzard. | personification |
| The video camera observed the whole scene. | personification |
| The burnt-out ends of smoky days (T.S. Eliot) | imagery |
| hyperbole | overexaggeration |
| personification | the giving of human characteristics to something nonhuman |
| simile | a comparison between unlike things using like or as |
| metaphor | a comparison of unlike things that share some characteristic |
| imagery | language that creates a mental picture |
| descriptive language | words that appeal to the senses |
| hungry as a horse | simile |
| the morning comes to consciousness | personification |
| She had a ton of homework to do! | hyperbole |
| She laughs like a hyena. | simile |
