Figurative Language

Figurative Language

Multiple Choice

Knowledge is a kingdom and all who learn are kings and queens.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

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He drew a line as straight as an arrow.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Multiple Choice

The early bird catches the worm.

• Pun

• Proverb

• Idiom

• Simile

Multiple Choice

POP!

• Pun

• Idiom

• Oxymoron

• Onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

The streets called to him.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Multiple Choice

The wheat field was a sea of gold.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Multiple Choice

I used to have a fear of hurdles, but I got over it...

• Pun

• Proverb

• Personification

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He drove his expensive car into a tree and found out how the Mercedes bends!

• Pun

• Proverb

• Hyperbole

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I could sleep forever!

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

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She is as sweet as candy.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

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SPLAT!

• Oxymoron

• Pun

• Onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

Don't bit the hand that feeds you.

• Idiom

• Proverb

Multiple Choice

Can I have one of your chips?

• Pun

• Oxymoron

• Understatement

Multiple Choice

Dinner is on the house.

• Idiom

• Proverb

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Ravenous and savage from its long polar journey,

the North Wind/

is searching for food

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

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I'd rather take baths with a man-eating shark, pet ten porcupines, than tackle the homework, my teacher assigns.

{The above poem is an example of what type of figurative language}

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Multiple Choice

A flag wags like a fishhook there in the sky.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Multiple Choice

Can I see you for a second?

• idiom

• proverb

• understatement

• oxymoron

Multiple Choice

Your face is killing me!

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Multiple Choice

She was as white as a ghost.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification