Look at the literary terms in the following table and determine which are used in the numbered examples. Check your answers here.

alliteration   allusion    assonance    cliché    consonance    hyperbole    metaphor   onomatopoeia    simile    understatement

• This little snack will do nicely,” I said as the four plates of food were presented to me. ___

• “I've found my Romeo,” Patricia sighed to her friend Susie._____

• click, crackle, whoosh _____

• We'll leave no stone unturned in our search for the robber.________

• The newly wet grass sparkled like emeralds._________

• Many men marched home.__________

• I spent a couple of weeks in that dull city one day. __________

• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.__________

• Pop culture is the drug of the country. __________

• … the bird that chirped and slurped __________