Figurative Language - Lesson 1

Figurative Language - Lesson 1

Similes, Metaphors, Alliteration, Onomatopoeia and Hyperbole.

Multiple Choice

What type of figurative language is shown?

The ocean waves danced in the moonlight.

• personification

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• oxymoron

Multiple Choice

What type of figurative language is shown?

Her long hair is an ocean of waves.

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

What type of figurative language is shown?

The runner ran like a cheetah in the race.

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• simile

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

What type of figurative language is shown?

The flower hugged the earth after being blown over by the storm.

• personification

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

Multiple Choice

What is a metaphor?

• comparing two things using like or as
• repeating the same inital sound in neighboring words
• a phrase that means something else than what it says
• comparing two things by saying one is the other

Multiple Choice

What is a simile?

• a phrase that means something else than what it says
• comparing two things by saying one is the other
• comparing two things by using like or as
• a word that resembles the sound it represents

Multiple Choice

What is personification?

• comparing two things using like or as
• giving human traits to objects or ideas
• a dramatic exaggeration
• a word that resembles the sound it represents

Multiple Choice

What form of figurative language is being used?

"Life's a piece of cake

With someone to give

And someone to take

Life's a piece of pie

With someone to wash

And someone to dry

Life's an easy road

With someone beside you to share the load

Life is full of highs

With someone to stir

And someone to fry

Life's a leg of lamb

With someone there to lend a hand

Life's a bunch of flowers

With someone to while away the hours

Life's a filet of fish, eh!

... Yes, it is

Life's a happy song, when there's someone by your side to sing along"

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

Multiple Choice

What sound device is being used in this example?

"Louder, louder than a lion."

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

Multiple Choice

What form of figurative language is being used in this example?

"Your heart starts beating like a big brass band."

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

What sound device is being used?

"I can show you the world

shining, shimmering, splendid..."

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

Multiple Choice

What form of figurative language is being used?

"Life is your restaurant and I'm your maître d'"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Multiple Choice

What form of figurative language is being used in this song?

"Love is an open door."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Multiple Choice

What figurative language is used in this example?

"And one thought crystallizes like an icy blast

I'm never going back, the past is in the past

Let it go.."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Multiple Choice

What sound device is used in this example?

"Bees'll buzz..."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

What form of figurative language is used in this example?

"Skies are crying, I am watching

Catching teardrops in my hands…"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Multiple Choice

Read the sentence and choose the onomatopoeia.
Saya was doing the dishes and the clanging pots awoke the baby.

• pots
• clanging
• dishes
• awoke

Multiple Choice

Read the sentence and choose the onomatopoeia.
Wow, Hailie's race car zoomed past the finish line.

• zoomed
• car
• wow
• finish 

Multiple Choice

Read the sentence and choose the onomatopoeia.
Mrs. Davis was sitting by her pond listening to the frogs croak.  

• croak
• Mrs. Davis
• frogs
• pond

Multiple Choice

A word that imitates a sound, for example BUZZ and POP:

• Onomatopoeia
• Simile
• Metaphor