Name:_______________________ Date:____________________

Figures of Speech Practice

Directions: Match each sentence to the correct figure of speech below.

A. Metaphor B. Simile C. Personification

D. Allusion E. Hyperbole

1. A comparison between two unlike things in which one is said to be another thing.

2. Giving human characteristics to nonliving things.

3. A figure of speech comparing two unlike things using the words like or as.
4. The human circulatory is like a plumbing system.

5. Life is sometimes like a circus.

6. She is as fat as a cow!

7. We made a ton of money at the yard sale.

8. Bob, Tim, and Caleb are known around school as the three stooges.

9. His belly shook like a bowl of jelly.

10. Steve’s heart was a drum.

11. The hikers were swallowed by the forest.

12. It took me forever to do that homework!

13. Bob is a big teddy bear.

14. The rain was like a waterfall.

15. His muscles were rocks.

16. Her fingernails were daggers.

17. Kristy is such a scrooge when it comes to buying Christmas gifts.

18. It rained so much we may need an ark!

19. The wind spoke my name.

20. I may be afraid of spiders, but I’m no cowardly lion!

Extra: A woman, who was over weight and teased by the skinny cheerleader in high school,
is now a personal trainer at a gym and is training the once skinny cheerleader to tone her
now chubby body. This is an example of _____________________.