Figurative Language Examples

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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


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