figurative language practice sentences

Question 1

my face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain

Answer 1

similie

Question 2

i can mingle with the stars, and throw a party on mars; I’m a prisoner locked behind bars

Answer 2

metaphor

Question 3

fear knocked on the door. faith answered

Answer 3

personification

Question 4

your mommas to dumb, she could get locked in a grocery store and starve to death.

Answer 4

hyperbole

Question 5

plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is.

Answer 5

onomatopoeia

Question 6

piece of cake

Answer 6

idiom

Question 7

“i have a dream..”
“i have a dream..”
“i have a dream..”….. MLK

Answer 7

anaphora

Question 8

sight-imagery

Answer 8

visual

Question 9

sound-imagery

Answer 9

auditory

Question 10

touch-imagery

Answer 10

tactile

Question 11

smell-imagery

Answer 11

olfactory

Question 12

taste-imagery

Answer 12

gustatory

Question 13

sally sold seashells by the seashore

Answer 13

alliteration

Question 14

i was struggling to figure out how lightning works, then it struck me

Answer 14

pun

Question 15

hand is to glove as foot is to shoe

Answer 15

analogy

Question 16

1. shakesphere
2. Bible
3. greek mythology

Answer 16

allusion

Question 17

verbal-irony

Answer 17

speaker says one thing but means opposite

Question 18

situational- irony

Answer 18

what actually happens is opposite of what’s expected

Question 19

dramatic-irony

Answer 19

reader or audience knows something important that a character doesn’t know