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English 14 Public

Figurative language

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Time is money.

Metaphor

10

Waves of spam emails inundated his inbox.

Metaphor

10

My dad is always working.

Hyperbole

10

Allie has a million pairs of shoes in her closet.

Hyperbole

10

Old Mr. John has been teaching here since the Stone Age.

Hyperbole

10

Nothing can bother him.

Hyperbole

10

Peggy heard the last piece of cheesecake in the refrigerator calling her name.

Personification

10

Toby manipulated the people in his life as though they were chess pieces.

Simile

10

If seen from above the factory, the workers would have looked like clock parts.

Simile

10

The clap of thunder went bang and scared my poor dog.

Onomatopoeia

10

I couldn’t sleep. All I could hear was the drip, drip, drip of the faulty faucet.

Onomatopoeia

10

The machine whirred to a standstill.

Onomatopoeia

10

Oxymoron

10