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Figures of Speech Practice Directions: Match each sentence to the correct figure of speech below. A. Metaphor D. Allusion 1.
B. Simile E. Hyperbole
C. Personification
A comparison between two unlike things in which one is said to be another thing.
2. Giving human characteristics to nonliving things.
3. A figure of speech comparing two unlike things using the words like or as. 4. The human circulatory is like a plumbing system. 5. Life is sometimes like a circus. 6. She is as fat as a cow! 7. We made a ton of money at the yard sale. 8. Bob, Tim, and Caleb are known around school as the three stooges. 9. His belly shook like a bowl of jelly.
10. Steve’s heart was a drum. 11. The hikers were swallowed by the forest. 12. It took me forever to do that homework! 13. Bob is a big teddy bear. 14. The rain was like a waterfall. 15. His muscles were rocks. 16. Her fingernails were daggers. 17. Kristy is such a scrooge when it comes to buying Christmas gifts. 18. It rained so much we may need an ark! 19. The wind spoke my name. 20. I may be afraid of spiders, but I’m no cowardly lion!
Extra: A woman, who was over weight and teased by the skinny cheerleader in high school, is now a personal trainer at a gym and is training the once skinny cheerleader to tone her now chubby body. This is an example of _____________________.
Date:____________________
Figures of Speech Practice Directions: Match each sentence to the correct figure of speech below. A. Metaphor D. Allusion 1.
B. Simile E. Hyperbole
C. Personification
A comparison between two unlike things in which one is said to be another thing.
2. Giving human characteristics to nonliving things.
3. A figure of speech comparing two unlike things using the words like or as. 4. The human circulatory is like a plumbing system. 5. Life is sometimes like a circus. 6. She is as fat as a cow! 7. We made a ton of money at the yard sale. 8. Bob, Tim, and Caleb are known around school as the three stooges. 9. His belly shook like a bowl of jelly.
10. Steve’s heart was a drum. 11. The hikers were swallowed by the forest. 12. It took me forever to do that homework! 13. Bob is a big teddy bear. 14. The rain was like a waterfall. 15. His muscles were rocks. 16. Her fingernails were daggers. 17. Kristy is such a scrooge when it comes to buying Christmas gifts. 18. It rained so much we may need an ark! 19. The wind spoke my name. 20. I may be afraid of spiders, but I’m no cowardly lion!
Extra: A woman, who was over weight and teased by the skinny cheerleader in high school, is now a personal trainer at a gym and is training the once skinny cheerleader to tone her now chubby body. This is an example of _____________________.
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