Figurative Language Examples
onomatopoeia
Bang! The gun sounded and the runners took off as the race began.
hyperbole
Your mama jokes
alliteration
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
hyperbole
I have a ton of homework to do this weekend.
irony
In O.Henry's short story The Ransom of Red Chief some kidnappers take a little boy but later for ransom but later in the play end up paying the father to take the boy back because he is so bad.
hyperbole
It is freezing in here!!
irony
It's like rain on your wedding day, a free ride when you've already paid, the good advice that you just didn't take and who would have thought? It figures! It's like meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife.
oxymoron
Jumbo shrimp on sale for $3.99 a pound!
metaphor
Laughter is the best medicine
simile
Mrs. Simpson is as pretty as a rose.
personification
My homework stared at me from my backpack and I knew it was trying to figure out a way to ruin my weekend.
irony
Quit writing on the bathroom wall! -written on the bathroom wall
alliteration
She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
oxymoron
Shorty is cool like the fire cool like fire.
simile
Shorty like a melody in my head that I can't keep out got me singin' like na na na na everyday like my Ipod stuck on replay
personification
The clock screamed out in the pre-dawn light, "Get up you fathead!!"
onomatopoeia
The sky darkened and the birds became motionless and then the, "whir whir whir whir" of the F5 tornado could be heard over the entire farm.
alliteration
The words of every sad song seem to say what I think.
oxymoron
Tiny McGee was 6 foot 8 and weighed 300 lbs.
metaphor
You are sunshine on a cloudy day