Review for test #1: Figurative language
(O) for Onomatopoeia, (S) for Simile, (M) for Metaphor, (P) for Personification, (A) Alliteration
and (H) for Hyperbole.
1. _____ This suitcase weighs a ton.
2. _____Her mom is mean to her like my old math teacher.
3. _____I think the rat liked my food because I saw him dancing when he ate a piece of my
chicken.
4. _____Johny has been through a roller coaster of emotions lately.
5. _____The roller coaster swooshed right past us.
6. _____Marley decided to study at night because she considers herself a night owl.
7. _____The captain couldn’t keep the men in the cabin.
8. _____Dory from Finding Nemo once said “Just keep swimming”.
9. _____This room is so cold that I’m getting hypothermia.
10. _____The bride got cold feet and left the groom at the altar.
11. _____Yesterday my mom got really mad at me and said I was a couch potato.
12. _____She banged her head against the wall.
13. _____I like onions, but they don’t like me.
14. _____The candy was killing my cavity.
15. _____Her heels clacked on the hardwood floor.
16. _____However, the mail is running unusually slow this morning.
17. _____The barbarians broke through the barricade.
18. _____My alarm clock yelled at me this morning.
19. _____The horse said I looked like a cow.
20. _____My phone is not cooperating with me today.
21. _____He heard an ear-splitting shriek.
22. _____Change the channel.
23. _____Love is like war: very easy to begin but very hard to stop.
24. _____”It’s only 7pm, the night is young!”
25. _____I’m dying of thirst.