Fahrenheit 451 Figurative Language Part 1 Some examples may have more than one. You many not use all the words in the word bank Word Bank: metaphor, simile, personification, onomatopoeia, alliteration, allusion, oxymoron, hyperbole, idiom, pun 1. The house jumped up 2. Books died 3. Dress was white and it whispered 4. Face bright as snow 5. Bing, bing, bing 6. Kerosene is nothing but perfume to me 7. Thin face like the dial of a small clock 8. How immense a figure she was on the stage before him 9. He wore his happiness like a mask 10. The house screamed 11. He stood outside the talking house 12. He stood there very cold, his face a mask of ice 13. The bell in the ceiling kicked itself two hundred times. 14. He says I'm a regular onion. 15. You shin that pole like a bird up a tree. 16. The firehouse trembled as a great flight of jet planes whispered a single note across the black mornin sky.​