Figures of Speech Worksheet

Choices:Simile Metaphor Personification Hyperbole AlliterationOnomatopoeia Oxymoron Metonymy Synecdoche AllusionApostrophe

Instructions: Select the best answer for each of the following. In some cases, more than one figure of speech may be present.

1. _____________“You better watch out,” he said, “the Law is powerful around here.”

2. _____________All hands on deck.

3. _____________And so we are condemned to a living death.

4. _____________His arms dangled a mile out of his shirt.

5. _____________His laughter was loud as thunder.

6. _____________His laughter was thunder to the child.

7. _____________I am so hungry I could eat a horse.

8. _____________I have read Harry Potter.

9. _____________I have such a bad headache that my head is going to explode!

10. _____________Like a cobra, any new enemy will more likely strike when it feels events

are in its favor.

11. _____________Listening to his speech, is as exciting as watching paint dry.

12. _____________Lucy is a cyclone.

13. _____________Lucy is like a cyclone when she is angry.

14. _____________Oh overshoes, don’t you remember me?

15. _____________One couldn’t help but notice that there were a bunch of new faces at the

meeting.

16. _____________She sells sea shells by the sea shore.

17. _____________She’s as odd as Joan of Arc appeared to be.

18. _____________The message she received was bittersweet. He was alive but he’d fled

with Louise.

19. _____________The silence was deafening.

20. _____________The sizzling sausages squirted in the pan.

21. _____________The sleeping willows bowed their heads.

22. _____________The United States won the Olympics.

23. _____________The White House denied the allegations.

24. _____________The wind was a howling animal.

25. _____________The woman was a tigress in defense of her children.

26. _____________The World Wide Web is an amazing tool.

27. _____________Their apartment is as cheerful as can be.

28. _____________Trees are whispering my name.