Figurative Language Word Search

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This figurative language word search holds the names of the devices, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, idiom and onomatopoeia, along with examples to find, from sounds like sizzle and whoosh to sayings like cold feet and jumbo shrimp.

The first two are told apart by one word. A simile compares with like or as, as in Robert Burns's line of 1794, my love is like a red, red rose. A metaphor drops the like and says one thing is another, as in Shakespeare's all the world's a stage. Hyperbole stretches the truth on purpose, and nobody who says they have told you a million times expects to be counted.

Oxymoron is its own example. It joins two Greek words, oxys for sharp and moros for dull or foolish, so the name itself means a sharp dullness. Jumbo shrimp became one by accident. Jumbo turned into the everyday word for huge after 1882, when P. T. Barnum bought a giant elephant named Jumbo from the London Zoo and toured him across America.

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  • Alliteration
  • Allusion
  • Analogy
  • Apostrophe
  • Big Cheese
  • Boom
  • Busy Bee
  • Buzz
  • Cliche
  • Cold Feet
  • Comparison
  • Couch Potato
  • Crash
  • Euphemism
  • Exaggeration
  • Expression
  • Figurative
  • Hiss
  • Hyperbole
  • Idiom
  • Imagery
  • Jumbo Shrimp
  • Literal
  • Metaphor
  • Metonymy
  • Night Owl
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Open Secret
  • Oxymoron
  • Paradox
  • Personification
  • Pun
  • Simile
  • Sizzle
  • Splash
  • Symbolism
  • Thud
  • Understatement
  • Whoosh
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