Part 2. DIRECTIONS: Identify figure speech - Choose from the box the figure of
speech used.
Simile
Metaphor
Idiom
Proverb
1. This contract is as solid as the ground we stand on.
2. He is as stingy as her mother -- a real chip off the old
block.
3.Exhaustion is a thin blanket tattered with bullet holes
4.The sun in the west was a drop of burning gold that slid
near and nearer the sill of the world.
5.Don't just sit there like a bump on a log.
6.Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy,
wealthy and wise
7. Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved
at all.
8. am so thirsty that my throat is as dry as a bone
9. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
10.I've burnt my boats with my previous supervisor by
criticizing him publicly
11. His diving catch at the crunch moment in the match bok
my breath away
12.A roaring lion kills nothing.
13. They wore jeans, which made me stand out like a som
thumb.
14,.The sun is a creature of habit.
15. Her mouth was a fountain of delight
16.But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? Itis
the east, and Juliet is the sun!
17. The best way to eat an elephant is to cut him up into
pieces
18.That guy is as nutty as a fruitcake.
19. The new testing procedure to evaluate employees wil
separate the wheat from the chaff,
20.1 am a shark, Cassie,' he says slowly.​