Figurative Language

Figurative Language

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Multiple Choice

Which line contains a simile?

• "I am a curled up caterpillar / The floor is my leaf"

• "The cocoon is falling apart / My feet stretch out like wings"

• "I am running from the shadows / And running for myself"

• "When the breeze brushes / Against my forehead gently"

Multiple Choice

Which of the following lines is a metaphor?

• "I am a bee shuffling through the leaves"

• "She leans her pink elbow on the green grass"

• "and my sneakers imprint dents on the field"

• "We are a world apart in the same backyard"

Multiple Choice

Which phrase is an example of personification?

• "Spring flirted with me today"

• "bitter cold drops still carrying fragments of ice"

• "green leaves and the gardens's brown soil"

• "a gift I tuck away in the drawer"

Multiple Choice

Which of these sentences does NOT contain onomatopoeia?

• The race car screeched down the road.

• The bee was buzzing in my ear.

• The floor creaked as I walked across it.

• The really red rose is beautiful.

Multiple Choice

Which is NOT an example of hyperbole?

• My grandpa is older than dirt.

• If I don't get a new iPhone, I'll die!

• She's been my best friend forever.

• You were as brave as a lion.

Multiple Choice

During a class discussion, Jason added fuel to the fire by suggesting that the trip was pointless.What is the meaning of the idiom added fuel to the fire?

• gave someone good luck

• saw the positive in everything

• made a bad situation worse

• tried to do something again

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of alliteration?

• "silence was unbroken"

• "all my soul within me burning"

• "no living human being"

• "nodded, nearly napping"