Figurativia DIRECTIONS. Identify the figurative device that is being used in th sentences provided anguage WorKsheet # Simile Metaphor Hyperbole Personification Alliteration Idiom Allusion Oxymoron Onomatopocia 1. 'Whisper words of wisdom, let it be." What figurative device is being used in Alliteration the line by The Beatles? 2. " was excited because I found $10 in the street, but later that day I got a parking ticket for $20. Oh well, you win some, you lose some.* What device is being used here? 3. "She entered with ungainly struggle like some huge awkward chicken, torn, Metaphor squawking, out of its coop." 4. What figurative device is used in Michael Jackson's "Thriller lyrics, "You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it"? 5. "Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard... Allusion Alteration 6. "The sun in the west was a drop of burning gold that slid near and nearer the file the waid What figurative deve is being used in the novel, Lord of Hyperbole 7. "The ride was so fast, it will make your head spin!" What device is being Idiom used here? 8. "Suddenly the room was filled with deafening silence. 9. "His hair soared in the wind like a captive egret, finally released into the wild." Oxymoroh Similie 10. In the novel, Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson writes, "My house is shrinking and I feel like Alice in Wonderland." What device is being used here? Allusion 11. "Sobbing, the rain cried into his sleeve." 12. "Well, you keep away from her, cause she's a rattrap if I ever seen one." 13. In Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "The Bells", he writes, "From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells." What device is being used here? 14. 1 listened to his heart pounding through his t-shirt and knew everything Personif; was going to be okay now." 15. If she found a blade of nut grass in her yard it was like the Second Battle Mora of the Marne...