Quizlet Figurative Language - Examples

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  1. Alliteration: Later Lily will leave for Lawrence.
  2. Analogy: Doing drugs is comparable to driving with your eyes closed.
  3. Hyperbole: The teacher asked the same question at least a million times.
  4. Idiom: He was a chip off the old block.
  5. Metaphor: Ripe tomatoes are pieces of heaven in my garden.
  6. Onomatopoeia: The howling of the wind made me scarrrrrred.
  7. Personification: The problem caught me off guard. (= (= :P
  8. Simile: He ran like a locomotive speeding down the track.