1. The detective listened to her tales with a wooden face.

2. She was fairly certain that life was a fashion show.

3. The typical teenage boy’s room is a disaster area.
4. What storms then shook the ocean of my sleep.
5. The children were roses grown in concrete gardens, beautiful and
forlorn.
6. Kisses are the flowers of love in bloom.
7. His cotton candy words did not appeal to her taste.
8. Kathy arrived at the grocery store with an army of children.
9. Her eyes were fireflies.
10. He wanted to set sail on the ocean of love but he just wasted
away in the desert.
11. I was lost in a sea of nameless faces.
12. John’s answer to the problem was just a Band-Aid, not a
solution.
13. The cast on Michael’s broken leg was a plaster shackle.
14. Cameron always had a taste for the fruit of knowledge.
15. The promise between us was a delicate flower.
16. He’s a rolling stone, and it’s bred in the bone.
17. He pleaded for her forgiveness but Janet’s heart was cold iron.
18. She was just a trophy to Ricardo, another object to possess.
19. The path of resentment is easier to travel than the road to
forgiveness.
20. Katie’s plan to get into college was a house of cards on a
crooked table.
21. The wheels of justice turn slowly.
22. Hope shines–a pebble in the gloom.
23. She cut him down with her words.
24. The job interview was a rope ladder dropped from heaven.
25. Her hair was a flowing golden river streaming down her
shoulders.
26. The computer in the classroom was an old dinosaur.
 Knowledge is the key to success.

27. Laughter is the music of the soul.

28. David is a worm for what he did to Shelia.
29. The teacher planted the seeds of wisdom.
30. Phyllis, ah, Phyllis, my life is a gray day
31. Each blade of grass was a tiny bayonet pointed firmly at our
bare feet.
32. The daggers of heat pierced through his black t-shirt.
33. Let your eyes drink up that milkshake sky.
34. The drums of time have rolled and ceased.
35. Her hope was a fragile seed.
36. When Ninja Robot Squad came on TV, the boys were glued in
their seats.
37. Words are the weapons with which we wound.
38. She let such beautiful pearls of wisdom slip from her mouth
without even knowing.
39. Scars are the roadmap to the soul.
40. The quarterback was throwing nothing but rockets and bombs in
the field.
41. We are all shadows on the wall of time.
42. My heart swelled with a sea of tears.
43. When the teacher leaves her little realm, she breaks her wand of
power apart.
44. The Moo Cow’s tail is a piece of rope all raveled out where it
grows.
45. My dreams are flowers to which you are a bee.
46. The clouds sailed across the sky.
47. Each flame of the fire is a precious stone belonging to all who
gaze upon it.
48. And therefore I went forth with hope and fear into the wintry
forest of our life.
49. My words are chains of lead.
50. But into her face there came a flame; / I wonder could she have
been thinking the same?
51. The light flows into the bowl of the midnight sky, violet, amber
and rose.
52. Men court not death when there are sweets still left in life to
taste.
53. In capitalism, money is the life blood of society but charity is the
soul.
54. Whose world is but the trembling of a flare, / And heaven but as
the highway for a shell,
55. Fame is the fragrance of heroic deeds, / Of flowers of chivalry
and not of weeds!
56. So I sit spinning still, round this decaying form, the fine threads
of rare and subtle thought.
57. And swish of rope and ring of chain /
Are music to men who sail the main.
58. Still sits the school-house by the road, a ragged beggar sunning.
59. The child was our lone prayer to an empty sky.
60. Blind fools of fate and slaves of circumstance, / Life is a fiddler,
and we all must dance.
61. Grind the gentle spirit of our meek reviews into a powdery foam
of salt abuse.
62. Laugh a drink from the deep blue cup of sky.
63. Think now: history has many cunning passages and contrived
corridors.
64. You are now in London, that great sea whose ebb and flow at
once is deaf and loud,
65. His fine wit makes such a wound that the knife is lost in it.
66. Waves of spam emails inundated his inbox.
67. In my heart’s temple I suspend to thee these votive wreaths of
withered memory.
68. He cast a net of words in garish colours wrought to catch the idle
buzzers of the day.
69. This job is the cancer of my dreams and aspirations.
70. This song shall be thy rose, soft, fragrant, and with no thorn left
to wound thy bosom.
71. There, one whose voice was venomed melody.
72. A sweetness seems to last amid the dregs of past sorrows.
73. So in this dimmer room which we call life,
74. Life is the night with its dream-visions teeming, / Death is the
waking at day.
75. Then the lips relax their tension
and the pipe begins to slide, /
Till in little clouds of ashes,
it falls softly at his side.
76. The olden days: when thy smile to me was wine, golden wine
thy word of praise.
77. Thy tones are silver melted into sound.
78. Under us the brown earth / Ancient and strong, / The best bed
for wanderers;
79. Love is a guest that comes, unbidden, / But, having come,
asserts his right;
80. My House of Life is weather-stained with years.
81. See the sun, far off, a shriveled orange in a sky gone black;
82. Three pines strained darkly, runners in a race unseen by any.
83. But the rare herb, Forgetfulness, it hides away from me.
84. The field of cornflower yellow is a scarf at the neck of the copper
sunburned woman
85. Life: a lighted window and a closed door.
86. Some days my thoughts are just cocoons hanging from dripping
branches in the grey woods of my mind.
87. Men and women pass in the street glad of the shining sapphire
weather.
88. The swan existing is a song with an accompaniment.
89. At night the lake is a wide silence, without imagination.

90. The cherry-trees are seas of bloom and soft perfume and sweet
perfume.
91. The great gold apples of light hang from the street’s long bough,
dripping their light on the faces that drift below, on the faces that drift
and blow.
92. From its blue vase the rose of evening drops.
93. When in the mines of dark and silent thought / Sometimes I
delve and find strange fancies there,
94. The twigs were set beneath a veil of willows.
95. He clutched and hacked at ropes, at rags of sail, / Thinking that
comfort was a fairy tale,
96. O Moon, your light is failing and you are nothing now but a bow.
97. Life is a dream in the night, a fear among fears, / A naked
runner lost in a storm of spears.
98. This world of life is a garden ravaged.
99. And therefore I went forth, with hope and fear / Into the wintry
forest of our life;
100. My soul was a lampless sea and she was the tempest.
101. 1. I literally died.
102. 2. We’re more overdue for a hangout than the library book
I forgot to return ten years ago.
103. 3. I love you so damn much it literally hurts.
104. 4. I drank my body weight in wine.
105. 5. We ate our body weight in guacamole.
106. 6. Can you and your your pea-sized brain just STFU?
107. 7. You’re funnier than Seinfeld in the 90s.
108. 8. I want to be tapeworm skinny.
109. 9. I’ve already told you a million times!
110. 10. It’s arctic out!
111. 11. This humidity is more oppressive than a dictatorship.
112. 12. The apocalypse is definitely here. [In reference to a bad
storm.]
113. 13. That news hit me like a tsunami.
114. 14. It’s hotter than balls out there.
115. 15. She’s dumber than a doorknob.
116. 16. I love you times a bazillion.
117. 17. Let’s stay together for infinity.
118. 18. I love you more than forever.
119. 19. If you keep pouting like that a bird’s going to come and
shit on your lip.
120. 20. I love you to the moon and back.
121. 21. You better watch it or I’ll knock you into next year.
122. 22. I’m seriously starving!!!
123. 23. My vagina’s desert dry right now.
124. 24. I’m so thirsty I could drink Niagra Falls.
125. 25. I have a bazillion things to do today.
126. 26. I’d rather stab my own eye out than spend another
minute with you.
127. 27. I’d climb Mount Everest just to see you for 30 more
seconds.
128. 28. I’d rather get Syphilis than hang out with him again.
129. 29. This is more fun than Lindsay Lohan on drugs.
130. 30. I have fifty million hours of homework to do tonight.
131. 31. They were meant for each other than Romeo and Juliet.
132. 32. When they met, there were fireworks in their eyes.
133. 33. I used to walk to school 40 miles uphill—both ways.
134. 34. I love you so hard, my heart’s pounding out of my
chest.
135. 35. You are brighter than the shiniest star.
136. 36. I would walk 500 miles just to be with you.
137. 37. I’d travel the multiverse if it meant seeing that smile
one more time.
138. 38. If you keep making that face it’ll stick that way.
139. 39. It was polar bear cold out.
140. 40. She’s so dumb, she thinks Taco Bell is a Mexican phone
company.
141. 41. I’m so hungry I could eat a horse and its sister.
142. 42. He’s toothpick skinny.
143. 43. That car’s driving faster than the speed of light.
144. 44. That runner’s speedier than a cheetah.
145. 45. Her diamond ring cost a fortune.
146. 46. That coat costs more than the GDP of some small
countries.
147. 47. She’s more broken than Donald Trump’s
administration.
148. 48. He’s older than ancient Rome.
149. 49. He’s chiller than the Buddha.
150. 50. That joke’s so old, there were dinosaurs around the last
time someone told it.
151. 51. She eats like a little bird.
152. 52. She cooked enough food for an army.
153. 53. They ran like greased lightning.
154. 54. She’s light as a feather.
155. 55. I’m gonna beat the living day lights outta you.
156. 56. You’re the apple of my eye.
157. 57. We’ve been waiting an eternity.
158. 58. This movie’s darker than the devil himself.
159. 59. I’ll do it the day hell freezes over.
160. 60. Show me a pig that can fly, and I’ll show you a person
who doesn’t lie.
161. 61. Way too many moons have passed since I last saw you.
162. 62. I want to get Britney-Spears-circa-2007 crazy tonight.
163. 63. It’s more of a marathon than a sprint.
164. 64. She slept like a rock.
165. 65. He’s weirder than a rainstorm on a sunny day.
166. 66. This movie sucks harder than an industrial vacuum.
167. 67. He’s more of an asshole than Hitler himself.
168. 68. She’s more popular than God.
169. 69. This thing’s heavier than a boulder.
170. 70. I think I’m dying of a broken heart.
171. 71. We make a better team than Bonnie and Clyde.
172. 72. I’m gonna kick the poop outta you.
173. 73. That smells worse than poop.
174. 74. That tastes like crack, it’s so good.
175. 75. I’m actually obsessed.
176. 76. He’s full-on stalking me.
1. “Food?” Chris inquired, popping out of his seat like a toaster strudel.
2. Grandpa lounged on the raft in the middle of the pool like an old
battleship.
3. If seen from above the factory, the workers would have looked like
clock parts.
4. The truth was like a bad taste on his tongue.
5. The people who still lived in the town were stuck in place like wax
statues.
6. Cassie talked to her son about girls as though she were giving him tax
advice.
7. Alan’s jokes were like flat soda to the children, surprisingly unpleasant.
8. My mother’s kitchen was like a holy place: you couldn’t wear your
shoes, you had to sit there at a certain time, and occasionally we’d
pray.
9. The bottle rolled off the table like a teardrop.
10. The handshake felt like warm laundry.
11. She hung her head like a dying flower.
12. Arguing with her was like dueling with hand grenades.
13. The classroom was as quiet as a tongue-tied librarian in a hybrid
car.
14. Janie’s boyfriend appreciated her as an ape might appreciate an
algebra book.
15. The clouds were like ice-cream castles in the sky.
16. The shingles on the shack shook in the storm winds like scared
children.
17. When he reached the top of the hill, he felt as strong as a steel
gate.
18. When the tree branch broke, Millie fell from the limb like a
robin’s egg.
19. She swam through the waters like she was falling through a
warm dream.
20. They children ran like ripples through water.
21. Mikhail scattered his pocket change in front of the beggars like
crumbs of bread.
22. Her hair was as soft as a spider web.
23. Each dollar bill was a like a magic wand to cast away problems.
24. The man held the blanket like a memory.
25. The ice sculptor’s hands fluttered like hummingbird wings.
26. I’m about as awesome as a flying giraffe.
27. You are soft as the nesting dove.
28. Andre charged down the football field like it was the War of
1812.
29. The stars looked like stupid little fish.
30. Her laughter was like a warm blanket or a familiar song.
31. The river flows like a stream of glass
32. Blood seeped out of the wound like red teardrops.
33. Paul carried his science project to school like he was transporting
explosive glass.
34. She looked at me like I was speaking in some strange alien
tongue.
35. The town square was buzzing like a beehive.
36. Kelsey followed her dreams like most kids would follow a big
sister.
37. Kyle looked at the test with a stare as blank as his notebook.
38. The robins are as thick today as flakes of snow were yesterday,

Yes, please.

39. Her eyes are like the eyes of statues.

40. The gray moss drapes us like sages.
41. The music burst like a bent-up flood.
42. The curtains stir as with an ancient pain.
43. But now her hands like moonlight brush the keys with velvet
grace.
44. I flitted like a dizzy moth.
45. The flowers were as soft as thoughts of budding love.
46. The gray of the sea, and the gray of the sky, / A glimpse of the
moon like a half-closed eye.
47. Yes, the doors are locked and the ashes are white as the frost.
48. A mist about your beauty clings like a thin cloud before a star.
 49. She went like snow in the springtime on a sunny hill.
50. Then I knew those tiny voices, clear as drops of dew.

Simile Examples for Advanced Readers

Here are fifty examples of similes for advanced readers. Remember: a
simile is a comparison between two different things using like or as to make
the comparison.
1. I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar.
2. Though they knew it not, their baby’s cries were lovely as jeweled
butterflies.
3. He kissed her as though he were trying to win a sword fight.
4. The paparazzi circled like vultures above a tottering camel.
5. She was as distant as a remote tropical island, uncivilized, unspoiled.
6. Our hearts, though stout and brave, still, like muffled drums, are
beating funeral marches to the grave.
7. He had hidden his wealth, heaped and hoarded and piled on high like
sacks of wheat in a granary.
8. Pieces of silver and of gold / Into the tinkling strong-box fell / Like
pebbles dropped into a well;
9. The cabin windows have grown blank as eyeballs of the dead.
10. What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
11. Each face was like the setting sun, / As, broad and red.
12. Barefooted, ragged, with neglected hair, she was a thin slip of a
girl, like a new moon.
13. A fatal letter wings its way across the sea, like a bird of prey.
14. I will sing a slumberous refrain, and you shall murmur like a
child appeased.
15. For she knows me! My heart, clear as a crystal beam / To her
alone, ceases to be inscrutable.
16. Leaf-strewing gales utter low wails like violins,
17. He spit out his teeth like stones.
18. Talk of your cold: through the parka’s fold it stabbed like a
driven nail.
19. Dawn breaks open like a wound that bleeds afresh.
20. Like winged stars the fire-flies flash and glance, / Pale in the
open moonshine.
21. The breath of her false mouth was like faint flowers, / Her touch
was as electric poison.
22. Then, as a hunted deer that could not flee, I turned upon my
thoughts and stood at bay, wounded and weak and panting;
23. There are thick woods where many a fountain, rivulet, and pond
are as clear as elemental diamond.
24. Years heap their withered hours, like leaves, on our decay.
25. The ripples wimple on the rills, like sparkling little lasses.
26. She was like a modest flower blown in sunny June and warm as
sun at noon’s high hour.
27. And the face of the waters that spread away / Was as gray as
the face of the dead.
28. As in depths of many seas, my heart was drowned in memories.
29. Then like a cold wave on a shore, comes silence and she sings
no more.
30. And shout thy loud battle-cry, cleaving the silence like a sword.
31. My soul is lost and tossed like a ship unruddered in a shoreless
sea.
32. The clouds like crowds of snowy-hued and white-robed maidens
pass
33. Dreams, like ghosts, must hide away; / ‘Tis the day.
34. The evening stretches before me like a road.
35. I would have hours that move like a glitter of dancers.
36. Toby manipulated the people in his life as though they were
chess pieces.
37. And only to think that my soul could not react, but turned on
itself like a tortured snake.
38. There are strange birds like blots against a sky.
39. She goes all so softly like a shadow on the hill, a faint wind at
twilight.
40. The horse-chestnuts dropped their buds like tears.
41. They walk in awful splendor, regal yet, wearing their crimes like
rich and kingly capes.
42. Death is like moonlight in a lofty wood that pours pale magic
through the shadowy leaves.
43. I was sick of all the sorrow and distress that flourished in the
City like foul weeds.
44. As I read it in the white, morning sunlight, the letters squirmed
like snakes.
45. Oh, praise me not the silent folk; / To me they only seem / Like
leafless, bird-abandoned oak.
46. The windflowers and the lilies were yellow striped as adder’s
tongue.
47. I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.
48. For the world’s events have rumbled on since those days like
traffic.
49. And dance as dust before the sun, light of foot and unconfined.
50. The fishes skim like umber shades through the undulating
weeds.
51. Gather up the undiscovered universe like jewels in a jasper cup.
52. Examples of Alliteration Using the “B” Sound
53. 1. Janie read a book by the babbling brook.
54. 2. The child bounced the ball at the backyard barbeque.
55. 3. The barbarians broke through the barricade.
56. 4. He acts silly at times, but he was blessed with
a brilliant brain.
57. 5. The beautiful bouquet blossomed in the bright sun.
58. Examples of Alliteration Using the “C” and “K” Sounds
59. 6. When the canary keeled over, the coal miners left the cave.
60. 7. The captain couldn’t keep the men in the cabin.
61. 8. Erin cooked cupcakes in the kitchen.
62. 9. My Cadillac was completely crushed in a car crash.
63. 10. The candy was killing my cavity.
64. Examples of Alliteration Using the “Ch” Sound
65. 11. Despite their mother’s warnings, the children chose to chew
with their mouths open.
66. 12. The rich man was so cheap that it was chilling.
67. 13. The crowd cheered when the champion hit the challenger
with a chair.
68. 14. We sat around the campfire and chomped on chunks
of charred chicken.
69. 15. Change the channel.
70. Examples of Alliteration Using the “D” Sound
71. 16. They would have been on time, if they didn’t dilly-dally.
72. 17. He dunked the delicious donut in dairy creamer.
73. 18. There is nothing but death in the desert during the day.
74. 19. I woke up at school in a slobbery pool; though I used to
be dry, now I’m drowning in drool.
75. 20. I dreamt of a drip-dropping drain in my dream.
76. Examples of Alliteration Using the “F” and “Ph” Sounds
77. 21. Your friends will flip-flop fast when facing trouble.
78. 22. Our financial future fell into a freefall.
79. 23. The stuntman flipped from a forty foot Ferris wheel.
80. 24. I forgot my flip phone but felt free.
81. 25. That’s the first photo of France from the Moon.
82. Examples of Alliteration Using the “G” Sound
83. 26. When the tests were distributed, the guys grimaced
and groaned.
84. 27. The girl grabbed the golden goose and ran.
85. 28. Grass grows greener in the graveyard.
86. 29. The ghouls and ghosts greeted the gangly goblins.
87. 30. I reached under the desk and grabbed the gross gum.
88. Examples of Alliteration Using the “H” Sound
89. 31. The hummingbirds hovered in heavenly harmony.
90. 32. She happily helped the homeless.
91. 33. The hecklers hassled the humble harmonica player.
92. 34. After Monique dumped Brian, his heart hung heavily.
93. 35. Those horses have heavy hooves.
94. Examples of Alliteration Using the “J” and “G” Sounds
95. 36. The gentle giant jumped in jubilation.
96. 37. Juggling jack o’lanterns is my job.
97. 38. He jabbed the javelin into the jail cell.
98. 39. Jellyfish have germs and jarring toxins.
99. 40. The gym was jammed with jelly jars and junk.
100. Examples of Alliteration Using the “L” Sound
101. 41. Whenever he lied, he lisped a little.
102. 42. The lion licked his lips.
103. 43. Feeling rather lazy, he laid low in the lounge.
104. 44. We lamented the Lord’s lost labor.
105. 45. Her love languished in the limelight.
106. Examples of Alliteration Using the “M” Sound
107. 46. Menacing sounds of mashing metal machines emanated
from the mines.
108. 47. All of the millionaire’s money only made
him more melancholy.
109. 48. My mother makes a mouthwatering mincemeat pie.
110. 49. There are madmen in the middle of those mountains.
111. 50. Most monsters don’t mind making messes.
112. Examples of Alliteration Using the “N,” “Gn,” and “Kn”
Sounds
113. 51. My neighbors are not normally noisy.
114. 52. I knew that she’d be a natural at kneading the noodle
dough.
115. 53. The ninjas gnashed their knives and nailed their targets.
116. 54. The newt nuzzled in a narrow nook.
117. 55. Mom nabbed her niece by the nape of her neck.
118. Examples of Alliteration Using the “P” Sound
119. 56. The prince pressed the royal seal on the purple parchment.
120. 57. A paper plane passed over my head.
121. 58. The parrot perched upon the pirate’s peacoat.
122. 59. Sue went to the party and pretended that she
was people person.
123. 60. The girls played patty-cake on the park bench.
124. Examples of Alliteration Using the “R” and “Wr” Sounds
125. 61. The red roses were wrapped in ribbons.
126. 62. She rarely reads; she’d rather write her own books.
127. 63. A radar ring rippled across the monitor.
128. 64. Those ravenous research rabbits have gone rabid!
129. 65. The reporter wrote about the rebel raid.
130. Examples of Alliteration Using the “S” and “C” Sounds
131. 66. The snake slithered across the sandy seaside.
132. 67. My sassy sister slapped the villain silly.
133. 68. That’s the sound of someone sipping soup for supper.
134. 69. She sniffed and smelled sage and sassafras.
135. 70. Seeking sanctuary, they formed a circle of spears.
136. Examples of Alliteration Using the “Sh” Sound
137. 71. She should share her sherbert with her sister.
138. 72. A shard of shrapnel shaved her shoulder blade.
139. 73. The sheep were schlepping shyly by the shark tank.
140. 74. He found a shell that even shimmered in the shade.
141. 75. The sheriff wore a shiny star shaped shield.
142. Examples of Alliteration Using the “St” Sound
143. 76. The store clerk stood and stared at me in stupor.
144. 77. She stuck the stolen stapler in her suitcase.
145. 78. The students threw stones through the stained
glass steeple.
146. 79. Everything rested on the strength of the steel structure.
147. 80. Stern winds strew still waters.
148. Examples of Alliteration Using the “T” Sound
149. 81. The teacher took the troublemakers’ toys.
150. 82. They trounced us in the tried and true tradition.
151. 83. The tattle-tale tried to tell the teacher.
152. 84. Try the turkey tacos; they’re quite tasty.
153. 85. The tornado tossed the trailer like a trash can.
154. Examples of Alliteration Using the “V” Sound
155. 86. The vapid vixen vented her various vexations.
156. 87. Valiance is a virtue often vacant from these vermin.
157. 88. We viewed the verdant valleys vaunted vegetation.
158. 89. The ventriloquist varied his voice vociferously.
159. 90. Her views on vices were vaguely veiled at best.
160. Examples of Alliteration Using the “W” Sound
161. 91. The wind was whistling through the weeping willows.
162. 92. Construction workers whistled at the women.
163. 93. We welcomed all the wise men from the West.
164. 94. Don’t wage a war of words against the world.
165. 95. The waffles worsened while the waiter waited.
166. Examples of Alliteration Using the “Y,” “Eu,” and “U”
Sounds
167. 96. In her youth she yearned to wander yonder Europe.
168. 97. I’m used to yelling at you yellowbellies.
169. 98. Your usefulness was used up yesterday.
170. Examples of Alliteration Using the “Z” and “X” Sound
171. 99. My zodiac was zooming toward the zenith.
172. 100. The xanthous xenophobes were overzealous.
173. 101. The player zipped by the zonal defense and zeroed in on
the end zone
174. 1) On my first morning on the farm, I was awoken suddenly by the cock-a-
doodle-do of the resident rooster.
175. 2) Ticktock, ticktock… the sound of the clock was all that could be heard in the
hospital waiting room.
176. 3) I ordered online proofreading services with the click of a mouse.
177. 4) I knew we had finally left the city when I could hear the gentle moo of the
cows in the field.
178. 5) Quack, quack went the ducks as we threw them our stale bread.
179. 6) Zip! My dress was fastened and I was finally ready for the wedding.
180. 7) It was lovely to wake up to the tweet of the birds outside my bedroom
window.
181. 8) “Compliments to the chef,” roared the giant as he let out a huge belch.
182. 9) My teeth were chattering as we waited in the freezing cold for the bus to
arrive.
183. 10) I could hear their buzzing, so I knew there was a bee’s nest around here
somewhere.
184. 11) Please do not beep your horn after dark.
185. 12) Yuk! That cheese stinks.
186. 13) The dog sniffed the air; he could smell meat.
187. 14) The pig squealed.
188. 15) I love the crunchy texture of fresh lettuce.
189. 16) I couldn’t sleep. All I could hear was the drip, drip, drip of the faulty faucet.
190. 17) Baa, baa whaled the sheep as the rain began to pour.
191. 18) I snapped my fingers in time to the beat of the music.
192. 19) I didn’t see the warning sign and bumped my head on the low doorframe.
193. 20) The loud boom of the fireworks scared the dog.
194. 21) The bird fluttered his wings and flew from the cage.
195. 22) Yikes! That was a close shave.
196. 23) I was awoken with a start with the loud bleep of my alarm clock.
197. 24) The cat purred as I gently stroked his fur.
198. 25) The magician waved his wand and poof, a rabbit appeared.
199. 26) The blinds rattled as the wind grew fiercer.
200. 27) The robbers’ car screeched around the corner as they attempted to escape the
police.
201. 28) I couldn’t wait to escape the cold and sit by a warm, crackling fire.
202. 29) The lion let out a loud roar as the ringmaster cracked his whip.
203. 30) The steaks sizzled on the barbeque.
204. 31) We clapped our hands it time with the music.
205. 32) The dog barked as the postman approached the gate.
206. 33) The mud bubbled on the surface of the bog.
207. 34) The girl screamed: “Eek!” as the mouse ran from under her bed.
208. 35) The bells of the church clanged to announce the start of the service.
209. 36) He fell off the slide and landed on the floor with a thump.
210. 37) The ball whizzed past my ear and into the catcher’s mitt.
211. 38) Shh! No talking in the library please.
212. 39) The train made a choo-choo sound and smoke billowed from its chimney.
213. 40) I heard a knock at the door.
214. 41) He murmured the words, “I’m sorry,” but I didn’t believe he really was.
215. 42) The machine whirred to a standstill.
216. 43) He slashed his ex-girlfriend’s tires and felt a strong surge of guilt.
217. 44) Tsk,tsk,tsk, you really shouldn’t be eating in class.
218. 45) I trembled as the door slowly creaked open.
219. 46) The owl hooted.
220. 47) Is there a possibility that this year we will hear the pitter-patter of tiny feet?
221. 48) The dog splashed around in the water, he was clearly having a lot of fun.
222. 49) I listened to the rustle of the leaves in the trees and I knew autumn had
arrived.
223. 50) The old man hummed his favorite tune and the passers-by smiled.
224. 51) Swoosh, the basketball flew smoothly through the net and the game was won.
225. 52) Clang, clang went the bell, reminding us all that it was time for school.
226. 53) Ding, dong, there was someone at the door.
227. 54) Don’t forget to flush the toilet before leaving the bathroom.
228. 55) Whoop, whoop! The gorgeous girl at the cinema gave me her phone number.
229. 56) Ugh, that cough syrup tastes disgusting.
230. 57) Phew! I only just made it on time.
231. 58) I know when the teacher is approaching because I can hear the jangle of her
bracelets.
232. 59) Huh? Could you speak up please?
233. 60) If we all help, the house will be clean faster than you can click your fingers.
234. 61) Scrooge is famous for saying: “Bah, hum bug.”
235. 62) I dropped the medicine into the glass and it fizzled until it dissolved.
236. 63) Ouch! You just stepped on my toe.
237. 64) I had second thoughts about visiting Joe when his dog started to growl at me.
238. 65) The twang of the banjo string hurt my ears.
239. 66) Ahem! I can hear everything you are saying about me.
240. 67) Please whisper while you are in the library.
241. 68) I gurgled the mouthwash as the dentist had instructed.
242. 69) I could hear the dog whine as I closed the door and I felt terribly guilty about
leaving him on his own.
243. 70) You scared me when you shouted, “boo.”
244. 71) He whipped out his magic wand and cast an amazing spell.
245. 72) I wish you wouldn’t slurp your drink like that.
246. 73) Your dog barks all night, can you try and keep him quiet please.
247. 74) “You will never beat me at tennis,” he snorted.
248. 75) I wish you wouldn’t mumble your words, I can’t understand what you’re
saying.
249. 76) Ow! That hurt.
250. 77) Shuffle the cards again.
 251. 78) As she sat in the chair, kerplunk it collapsed.
252. 79) Drink some water to help stop your hiccups.
253. 80) The champagne tickled her nose and made her giggle.
254. 81) There was a loud vroom as he revved the engine.
255. 82) He tapped loudly on the windowpane.
256. 83) Splat, the ink spilled onto the book and ruined the page.
257. 84) She popped the balloon with a pin.
258. 85) The snakes in the pit hissed menacingly.
259. 86) The tinkle of the rain could be heard in the distance and we knew it was
coming our way.
260. 87) I took her shopping but she moaned throughout the day.
261. 88) Zap! The ghosts were eradicated with the laser gun.
262. 89) Please do not gargle with your water like that; drink it properly.
263. 90) The water gushed down the stream to the waterfall.
264. 91) Someone shut that dog up! I’m tired of her yapping at us all day.
265. 92) I gobbled down my food as quickly as I could so that I could go and play
football.
266. 93) The ding-dong of the doorbell is not loud enough.
267. 94) We heard the tlot–tlot of the horse’s hooves.
268. 95) I squashed the snail when I stood on it by accident.
269. 96) The wolf howled at the moon.
270. 97) For breakfast he had a cereal that went “snap, crackle and pop” as he poured
on the milk.
271. 98) A door banged and someone sneezed “atishoo.”
272. 99) The crowd murmured as the judge announced the verdict.
273. 100) Meow purred the cat.

1. The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky. 26. While making my way to my car, it
appeared to smile at me mischievously.

2. The run-down house appeared depressed. 27. The car, painted lime green, raced by
screaming for attention.

3. The first rays of morning tiptoed through the 28. The butterflies in the meadow seemed to
meadow. two-step with one another.

4. She did not realize that opportunity was 29. The waffle jumped up out of the toaster.
knocking at her door.

5. He did not realize that his last chance was 30.The popcorn leapt out of the bowl.
walking out the door.

6. The bees played hide and seek with the 31. When the DVD went on sale, it flew off the
flowers as they buzzed from one to another. shelves.
7. The wind howled its mighty objection. 32. I tripped because the curb jumped out in
front of me.

8. The snow swaddled the earth like a mother 33. Time creeps up on you.
would her infant child.

9. The river swallowed the earth as the water 34. The news took me by surprise.
continued to rise higher and higher.

10. Time flew and before we knew it, it was time 35. The fire ran wild.
for me to go home.

11. The ocean waves lashed out at the boat and 36. The thunder clapped angrily in the
the storm continued to brew. distance.

12. My computer throws a fit every time I try to 37. The tornado ran through town without a
use it. care.

13. The thunder grumbled like an old man. 38. The door protested as it opened slowly.

14. The flowers waltzed in the gentle breeze. 39. The evil tree was lurking in the shadows.

15. Her life passed her by. 40. The tree branch moaned as I swung from
it.

16. The sun glared down at me from the sky. 41. Time marches to the beat of its own drum.

17. The moon winked at me through the clouds 42. The storm attacked the town with great
above. rage.

18. The wind sang through the meadow. 43. My life came screeching to a halt.

19. The car was suffering and was in need of 44. The baseball screamed all the way into the
some TLC. outfield.

20. At precisely 6:30 am my alarm clock sprang 45. The blizzard swallowed the town.
to life.

21. The window panes were talking as the wind 46. The tsunami raced towards the coastline.
blew through them.

22. The ocean danced in the moonlight. 47. The avalanche devoured everything in its
path.

23. The words appeared to leap off of the paper 48. The pistol glared at me from its holster.
as she read the story.

24. The phone awakened with a mighty ring. 49. The car beckoned me from across the
showroom.

25. The funeral raced by me in a blur. 50. I could hear Hawaii calling my name.
Did you identify the personification in the examples above? The human trait assigned to the
subject is in bold here. The subject being personified is underlined.
1. The stars danced playfully in the moonlit 26. While making my way to my car, it smiled
sky. at memischievously.

2. The run-down house appeared depressed. 27. The car, painted lime green, raced
by screaming for attention.

3. The first rays of morning tiptoed through the 28. The butterflies in the meadow seemed
meadow. to two-stepwith one another.

4. She did not realize that opportunity was 29. The waffle jumped up out of the toaster.
knocking at her door.

5. He did not realize that his last chance was 30. The popcorn leapt out of the bowl.
walking out the door.

6. The bees played hide and seek with the 31. When the DVD went on sale, it flew off the
flowers as they buzzed from one to another. shelves.

7. The wind howled its mighty objection. 32. I tripped because the curb jumped out in
front of me.

8. The snow swaddled the earth like a mother 33. Time creeps up on you.
would her infant child.

9. The river swallowed the earth as the water 34. The news took me by surprise.
continued to rise higher and higher.

10. Time flew and before we knew it, it was 35. The fire ran wild.
time for me to go home.

11. The ocean waves lashed out at the boat and 36. The thunder clapped angrily in the distance.
the storm continued to brew.

12. My computer throws a fit every time I try to 37. The tornado ran through town without a
use it. care.

13. The thunder grumbled like an old man. 38. The door protested as it opened slowly.

14. The flowers waltzed in the gentle breeze. 39. The evil tree was lurking in the shadows.

15. Her life passed her by. 40. The tree branch moaned as I swung from it.

16. The sun glared down at me from the sky. 41. Time marches to the beat of its own drum.
17. The moon winked at me through the clouds 42. The storm attacked the town with great
above. rage.

18. The wind sang through the meadow. 43. My life came screeching to a halt.

19. The car was suffering and was in need of 44. The baseball screamed all the way into the
some TLC. outfield.

20. At precisely 6:30 am my alarm 45. The blizzard swallowed the town.
clock sprang to life.

21. The window panes were talking as the wind 46. The tsunami raced towards the coastline.
blew through them.

22. The ocean danced in the moonlight. 47. The avalanche devoured everything in its
path.

23. The words leapt off of the paper as she read 48. The pistol glared at me from its holster.
the story.

24. The phone awakened with a mighty ring. 49. The car beckoned me from across the
showroom.

25. The funeral raced by me in a blur. 50. I could hear Hawaii calling my name.