| A | B |
|---|
| I was so happy I thought I'd burst | 1-Hyperbole |
| The flames roared through the house | 2-Personification |
| The wind whispered our names | 3-Personification |
| The clock told us it was time to go | 4-Personification |
| Afterwards, silence veiled the garden | 5-Personification |
| He's so mean he eats nails for breakfast | 6-Hyperbole |
| I'm so hungry I could eat a horse | 7-Hyperbole |
| Flowers danced across the summer yard | 8-Personification |
| The pebbles skipped across the pond | 9-Personification |
| I'm so tired I could sleep for a year | 10-Hyperbole |
| This book weighs a ton! | 11-Hyperbole |
| I'm standing as straight as a stick | 12-Simile |
| We ran down the road with winged feet | 13-Metaphor |
| Our eyes were beet red | 14-Metaphor |
| They fought like tigers | 15-Simile |
| Sheets of rain fell all day | 16-Metaphor |
| They were as quiet as mice | 17-Simile |
| Her cheeks were rosy apples | 18-Metaphor |
| His body moved like lightning | 19-Simile |
| His eyes gleamed like stars | 20-Simile |
| All the world is a stage | 21-Metaphor |
| Her willowy twigs of arms flayed the air | 22-Metaphor |
| She was as good as gold | 23-Simile |
| He roamed the woods like a bear | 24-Simile |
| Her hands were soft as babies' cheeks | 25-Simile |
| He had a boiling temper | 26-Metaphor |
| Her smile was as sweet as gumdrops | 27-Simile |
| I can smell pizza from a mile away | 28-Hyperbole |
| I've seen this movie a hundred times | 29-Hyperbole |
| These shoes are killing me | 30-Hyperbole |
| My dad knows everything about cars | 31-Hyperbole |
| Max is the fastest thing on 2 feet | 32-Hyperbole |
| That black cloud is threatening us! | 33-Personification |
| The wind lifted the sheet right off the line | 34-Personification |
| The fire leapt from house to house | 35-Personification |
| My socks stood right up | 36-Personification |
| The wind nestled uneasily in the eaves | 37-Personification |
| The daffodils poked their heads up in Spring | 38-Personification |
| The ants carried our picnic away | 39-Personification |
| The volcano roared | 40-Personification |
| figurative language | language enriched by word images and figures of speech |
| metaphor | a figure of speech that makes an implied comparison |
| mood | emotional state expressed in a literary work |
| personification | metaphorical figure of speech in which the a nunhuman is given human qualities |
| simile | a comparison of two dissimilar things, using comparison words |
| onomatopoeia | a figure of speech in which the sound of a word reflects its sense or meaning |
| style | an author's distinctive manner of using language that suits his or her ideas and purpose in wriitng |
| symbol | a word or set of words that signifies an object or event which itself signifies something else |
| symbolism | the use of a concrete image to express an emotion or an abstract idea |
| theme | a main idea or central idea that may be stated directly or indirectly |
| tone | the reflections of an author's attitude toward the topic and the audience as suggested by his or her word choices and stylistic effors |
| voice | the expression of an author's self or identity as relected in sentence construction or word choices |
| alliteration | the repetition of the beginning sounds of two or more neighboring words |
| hyperbole | a figure of speech in which subject exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect |
