Figurative Language Lesson & Quiz

Figurative Language Lesson & Quiz

Take notes in your notebook as we move through the lesson. QUIZ at the end!

Multiple Choice

He drew a line as straight as an arrow.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• idiom

Multiple Choice

A flag wags like a fishhook there in the sky.

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

I'd rather take baths

with a man-eating shark,

or wrestle a lion

alone in the dark,

eat spinach and liver,

or pet ten porcupines,

than tackle the homework

my teacher assigns.

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• simile

Multiple Choice

Ravenous and savage

from its long

polar journey,

the North Wind

is searching

for food—

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• personification

• oxymoron

Multiple Choice

It wasn’t nice to call him “pretty ugly.”

• oxymoron

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

The clouds smiled down at me.

• simile

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

• personification

Multiple Choice

SPLAT!

• personification

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

Multiple Choice

She is as sweet as candy

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• alliteration

Multiple Choice

I could sleep forever!

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

He acts silly at times, but he was blessed with a brilliant brain.

• personification

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• simile