Identify the figure of speech used in the following sentences. Write the
letter of the correct answer on your answer sheet.
1. His life is an open book.
A. simile C. hyperbole
B. metaphor D. personification
2. Bella entered the room with her hair like a waterfall at her back.
A. simile C. hyperbole
B. metaphor D. personification
3. We watched the leaves dancing in the wind.
A. simile C. hyperbole
B. metaphor D. personification
4. We are like lonely clouds drifting by.
A. simile C. hyperbole
B. metaphor D. personification
5. The cold rain kissed my cheeks as it falls.
A. simile C. hyperbole
B. metaphor D. personification
6. I recited my poem with hands as cold as an ice.
A. simile C. hyperbole
B. metaphor D. personification
7. Angry waves crashed into the shore.
A. simile C. hyperbole
B. metaphor D. personification
8. The stars are diamond in the sky.
A. simile C. hyperbole
B. metaphor D. personification
9. Her cheeks are as red as a rose.
A. simile C. hyperbole
B. metaphor D. personification
10. The whole house seems to be thinking in silence.
A. simile C. hyperbole
B. metaphor D. personification