Name: _________________________ Date: _________________________

Figures of Speech
Idioms- a phrase that means something different form the individual words in it (it’s raining cats and dogs)
Simile – compare two things using like or as (you eat like a pig)
Metaphor – compare two things without using like or as (life is a highway)
Alliteration – same beginning sound (Alice ate an apple)
Onomatopoeia – words that imitate real sounds (Meow)
Personification – give human qualities to non-human things (leaves dance in the wind)
Hyperbole – extreme exaggeration to make a point (I told you a million times)

Label each statement using the seven figures of speech found above. (Hint: 3 of each kind)
1. ____________________________ Silly Sally sang a sad song.

2. ____________________________ Hold your horses.

3. ____________________________ Doing homework is like doing chores.

4. ____________________________ The bathroom sink drip-drips, drip-drips.

5. ____________________________ I have a ton of homework.

6.____________________________ Streets are streams, cars are fish.

7. ____________________________ Her hair was as dark as night.

8. ____________________________ I’ll finish washing dishes faster than you can blink.

9. ____________________________ The cookies begged me to eat them.

10. ____________________________ Peter Piper picked a pickle pepper.

11. ____________________________ ”Ahhh”, “Weee”, “Woo-hoo”, was all you heard on the rollercoaster.

12. ____________________________ The rain gently kissed my cheeks.

13. ____________________________ The stars winked at me.

14. ____________________________ My coffee was hot like lava.

15. ____________________________ A taste of your own medicine.

16. ____________________________ Each morning, I woke to the sound “Cock-a-doddle-doo.”

17. ____________________________ All bark and no bite.

18. ____________________________ I am a rock, strong and hard.

19. ____________________________ Weird Wally waits, wishes, and whistles while wanting watermelons.

20. ____________________________ I ate so much, I think I’m going to explode.

21. ____________________________ The test was a walk in the park.

Figures of Speech
Idioms- a phrase that means something different form the individual words in it (it’s raining cats and dogs)
Simile – compare two things using like or as (you eat like a pig)
Metaphor – compare two things without using like or as (life is a highway)
Alliteration – same beginning sound (Alice ate an apple)
Onomatopoeia – words that imitate real sounds (Meow)
Personification – give human qualities to non-human things (leaves dance in the wind)
Hyperbole – extreme exaggeration to make a point (I told you a million times)

Label each statement using the seven figures of speech found above. (Hint: 3 of each kind)
Alliteration
1. ____________________________ Silly Sally sang a sad song.
Idiom
2. ____________________________ Hold your horses.
Simile
3. ____________________________ Doing homework is like doing chores.
Onomatopoeia
4. ____________________________ The bathroom sink drip-drips, drip-drips.
Hyperbole
5. ____________________________ I have a ton of homework.
Metaphor
6.____________________________ Streets are streams, cars are fish.
Simile
7. ____________________________ Her hair was as dark as night.
Hyperbole
8. ____________________________ I’ll finish washing dishes faster than you can blink.
Personification
9. ____________________________ The cookies begged me to eat them.
Alliteration
10. ____________________________ Peter Piper picked a pickle pepper.
Onomatopoeia
11. ____________________________ ”Ahhh”, “Weee”, “Woo-hoo”, was all you heard on the rollercoaster.
Personification
12. ____________________________ The rain gently kissed my cheeks.
Personification
13. ____________________________ The stars winked at me.
Simile
14. ____________________________ My coffee was hot like lava.
Idiom
15. ____________________________ A taste of your own medicine.
Onomatopoeia
16. ____________________________ Each morning, I woke to the sound “Cock-a-doddle-doo.”
Idiom
17. ____________________________ All bark and no bite.
Metaphor
18. ____________________________ I am a rock, strong and hard.
Alliteration
19. ____________________________ Weird Wally waits, wishes, and whistles while wanting watermelons.
Hyperbole
20. ____________________________ I ate so much, I think I’m going to explode.
Metaphor
21. ____________________________ The test was a walk in the park.
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