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    EXTRAFigures of Speech Worksheet

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    This document provides a worksheet with examples of different figures of speech including similes, alliterations, onomatopoeias, allusions, apostrophes, metaphors, personifications, hyperboles, synecdoches, oxymorons and metonyms. Students are asked to identify which figure of speech is being used in each example statement. There are 28 statements total that employ different rhetorical devices.

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    This document provides a worksheet with examples of different figures of speech including similes, alliterations, onomatopoeias, allusions, apostrophes, metaphors, personifications, hyperboles, synecdoches, oxymorons and metonyms. Students are asked to identify which figure of speech is being used in each example statement. There are 28 statements total that employ different rhetorical devices.

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    Figures of Speech Worksheet

    Choices: Simile Alliteration Onomatopoeia Allusion Apostrophe Metaphor Personification Hyperbole Synecdoche

    Oxymoron Metonymy

    Instructions: Select the best answer for each of the following. In some cases, more than one figure of speech may be present. 1. _____________You better watch out, he said, the Law is powerful around here. 2. _____________All hands on deck. 3. _____________And so we are condemned to a living death. 4. _____________His arms dangled a mile out of his shirt. 5. _____________His laughter was loud as thunder. 6. _____________His laughter was thunder to the child. 7. _____________I am so hungry I could eat a horse. 8. _____________I have read Harry Potter. 9. _____________I have such a bad headache that my head is going to explode! 10. _____________Like a cobra, any new enemy will more likely strike when it feels events are in its favor. 11. _____________Listening to his speech, is as exciting as watching paint dry. 12. _____________Lucy is a cyclone. 13. _____________Lucy is like a cyclone when she is angry. 14. _____________Oh overshoes, dont you remember me?

    15. _____________One couldnt help but notice that there were a bunch of new faces at the meeting. 16. _____________She sells sea shells by the sea shore. 17. _____________Shes as odd as Joan of Arc appeared to be. 18. _____________The message she received was bittersweet. He was alive but hed fled with Louise. 19. _____________The silence was deafening. 20. _____________The sizzling sausages squirted in the pan. 21. _____________The sleeping willows bowed their heads. 22. _____________The United States won the Olympics. 23. _____________The White House denied the allegations. 24. _____________The wind was a howling animal. 25. _____________The woman was a tigress in defense of her children. 26. _____________The World Wide Web is an amazing tool. 27. _____________Their apartment is as cheerful as can be. 28. _____________Trees are whispering my name.

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