This document contains examples of different types of figurative language including metaphor, simile, idiom, personification, and hyperbole. It also includes a figurative language crossword puzzle and an activity matching examples to different types of figurative language.

1. I will rise up like a skyscraper.
MetaphorSimile
The clouds look as fluffy as cotton candy.
You have knocked me off my feet.
She is a walking dictionary.
Your words cut like knives.
Figurative Language Sort
You're my Kryptonite.
The road was a ribbon of moonlight.
My dog was like a blanket, warming my feet.
Your bedroom is a pigsty.

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Figurative Language Crossword Puzzle
7. A word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to
another thing in order to show or suggest they are
similar
6. Uses metaphors and similes as tools
5. An expression that means something other
than the literal mearnings of its individual words
4. Repetition of consonant sound
3. A big exaggeration
2. Words that represent a sound
1. Comparison of two unlike thing using "like"
or "as"
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3. Match the Figurative Language
Team 1 Team 2
She sells sea shellsD
AlliterationD
SimileD
I had a ton of homework D
Hyperbp;e D OnomatopoeiaD
Out of the blueD
Idiom D
My memory is foggy D
MetaphorD
Sick as a dogD
Quack! D
Pull two tabs to reveal the hidden word or example. If you have a match, drag a Team 1 or Team 2 marker to claim
your match!

4. d. centimeter
c. count
b. pencil
d. puddleb. clouds
a. lightning
d. hat
c. storea. oven
a. sing
b. radio
c. stage
Analogies
Example: fly : airplane :: drive : car
1. happy : joyful :: sad :
b. angry
c. funny
d. laugh
a. depressed
Directions: Drag to reveal correct term to complete analogy
2. pen : writer :: : singer
d. voice
3. poet : poem :: baker :
b. pie
4. mist : fog :: drizzle :
c. downpour
5. knife : cut :: : measure
a. ruler