Name: _______________________ Date:

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Write the letter of the best answer.
1-30. Choose from the following:

A. Simile B. Metaphor
C. personification
1. Your explanation is as
clear as water.
2. My alarm clock yells
at me every morning.
3. He is as funny as a
barrel of monkeys.
4. The promise between
us was a delicate flower.
5. This house is as
clean as a whistle.
6. He is as strong
as an ox.
7. Your explanation
is as clear as mud.
8. Watching the show
was like watching grass
grow.
9. The cast on Michael’s
broken leg was a plaster
shackle.The avalanche
devoured anything standing in
its way.
10. The car
complained as the
key was turned.
11. Her eyes were
fireflies.
12. He wanted to set sail on
the ocean of love but he
just wasted away in the
desert.
13. I was lost in a sea
of nameless faces.
14. John’s answer to the
problem was just a Band-
Aid, not a solution.
15. They fought like
cats and dogs.
16. He pleaded for her
forgiveness but Janet’s
heart was cold iron.
17. Lightning danced
across the sky.
18. When I didn't
make the team, my
dream of being a star
died.
19. The wind
howled in the
night.
20. Rita heard the
last piece of pie
calling her name.
21. Traffic slowed
to a crawl.
22. You were as
brave as a lion.
23. Cameron always
had a taste for the
fruit of knowledge.
24. The moon played
hide and seek with the
clouds.
25. The cactus saluted
those who drove past.
26. He’s a rolling
stone, and it’s bred
in the bone.
27. The wildfire ran
through the forest at
an amazing speed.
28. The typical
teenage boy’s room is
a disaster area.
29. What storms
then shook the
ocean of my sleep.
30.Father is the
roof of a family.
31-50 choose from the
following
a. oxymoron
b. irony
c. paradox
31. The teacher fails the test.
32. This is another fine mess you have got us
into.
33. Two people want a divorce, but during the
proceedings they discover they still love each
other and get back together.
34. A pilot has a fear of heights.
35. Suddenly the room filled with a deafening
silence.
36. A post on Facebook complaining how
useless Facebook is.
37. This is a genuine imitation Rolex
watch.
38. The police station gets robbed.
39. A fire station burns down.
40. A mother complains about her lazy children, not realizing
they have been secretly making her a birthday present.
41. There is a real love hate relationship
developing between the two of them.
42. The comedian was seriously funny.
43. Do you have the original copies that we
requested?
44. Truth is honey, which is bitter.
45. I must be cruel to be kind
46.
` The child is father of the man
47. You are clearly confused by the situation
you have found yourself in.
48. Her singing was enough to raise the living
dead.
49. A man leaps out of the road to avoid being
hit by a car, only to have a tree branch fall on his
head.
50. I am nobody