FIGURE OF SPEECH

SIMILES I wanted our songs to fly out to the audience. But, somehow they dropped like a lead beach ball. Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. As smart as an owl. Laughs like a hyena. As tricky as a box of monkeys. As delicate as a flower. METAPOR When he ate, he was a crocodile, opening wide and snapping his jaws suddenly for the kill. She was a walking colour wheel, always wearing just about every shade possible, all at once. Her hair was a fierce lion's mane, never washed and sticking out in wild directions. The closet of his mind had tightly closed the doors on change. New ideas blossomed in her mind when she saw the structure. Life is a mere dream, a fleeting shadow on a cloudy day. PERSONIFICATION The bees played hide and seek with the flowers as they buzzed from one to another. The river swallowed the earth as the water continued to rise higher and higher. The butterflies in the meadow seemed to two-step with one another. Opportunity knocked on the door. The blizzard swallowed the town. The fire ran wild.

METONYMY Red letter day an important day. In calendars, important days and holidays are marked in red. A committee or a board members. He writes with a fine hand- means he has a good handwriting The pen is mightier than the sword-refers that the power of literary works is greater than military force. He is a man of cloth- which means he belongs to a religious order. We have always remained loyal to the crown- that means the people are loyal to the king or the ruler of their country. HYPERBOLE Her brain is the size of a pea. I'm so hungry I could eat a goose with its beak! That joke is so old, the last time I heard it I was riding on a dinosaur. I have told you a million times not to lie! She is a hundred feet tall. I've told you a million times don't exaggerate.

DIRECTIONS: Write S for simile, M for metaphor, H for hyperbole, or P for personification. 1. Laughs like a hyena. 2. The rain kissed my cheeks as it fell. 3. Her smile was a mile wide. 4. Life has a tendency to come back and bite you. 5. Art is a jealous mistress. 6. The noise is music to her ears. 7. I waited in line for centuries 8. As black as a sweep. 9. Art is a jealous mistress. 10. You had better pull your socks up. 11. I have told you a million times not to lie! 12. Trees were dancing with the wind. 13. His skin was as cold as ice. 14. The baseball screamed all the way into the outfield. 15. As happy as a rat with a gold tooth. 16. Her brain is the size of a pea. 17. A light in a sea of darkness. 18. My love is like a red, red rose. 19. She is a hundred feet tall 20. She is the apple of my eye.