FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Onomatopoeia

The buzzing bee flew away.

He looked at the roaring

The rustling leaves kept me awake.

ALLITERATION
Can you keep the cat from clawing the couch? It's creating chaos.
Dan's dog dove deep in the dam, drinking dirty water as he dove.
Fred's friends fried Fritos for Friday's food.

SIMILE

The laborer remained busy at work all day long and slept like a log that night.

The audience listened to his spellbinding speech as quietly as mice.

She was as pretty as a rose.

The water well was as dry as a bone.
Her cheeks are red like a rose.

METAPHOR
My teacher is a dragon.
The snow is a white blanket.
The children were flowers grown in concrete gardens.

Hyperbole
The car went faster than the speed of light.
His new car cost a bazillion dollars.
I am so fast I make a cheetah look slow.

PERSONIFICATION

The ship danced over the undulating waves of the ocean.

When he sat the test, the words and the ideas fled from his mind.
The fire alarm screamed throughout the building.