Student Resource Cards Figurative Language Page 4
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4Student Resource Sheet -- Figurative Language
ANSWER KEY
Example
Type
The test was a piece of cake.
metaphor
Run like the wind so you won't be late.
simile
Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
idiom
Time waits for no one.
personification
The timer told me my food was cooked.
personification
As usual, the couch potato is watching TV.
metaphor
I will die if he asks me to dance.
hyperbole
We waited in line for centuries.
hyperbole
Don't bite off more than you can chew.
idiom
Let bygones be bygones.
idiom
A white blanket of snow covered the streets
metaphor
It took him two seconds to drive here.
hyperbole
The teenage boy's stomach is a bottomless pit.
metaphor
Great minds think alike.
idiom
I have a thousand things to do today.
hyperbole
Florida is as flat as a pancake.
simile
Her mean glare was as cold as ice.
simile
The breeze whispered softly in the night.
personification
The palm trees were dancing in the wind.
personification
His garlic breath could knock over an elephant.
hyperbole
Rome wasn't built in a day.
idiom
The teenager is as hungry as a wolf.
simile
Silence crept over the classroom.
personification
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