Figurative Language- STAAR Review

Figurative Language- STAAR Review

By Baraka Davisplair

Multiple Choice

Alliteration is...

• an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally

• a comparison using like or as

• repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• Words that sound like their meaning

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A simile.....

• tells what a person likes
• compares two unlike things using the words like or as
• compares two similar things 
• tells what a person is doing

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Standing tall and frozen like statues in a vacant courtyard

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

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What is a metaphor?

• A comparison that does not use like, yet, as, or so

• the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• A comparison that does not use like or as

• words that sound like their meaning

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The assignment was a breeze is an example of a(n)...

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Allusion

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What is a hyperbole?

• An exaggerated statement not to be taken literally. 
• Telling the truth
• A statement that gives non-human objects human characteristics.

• an expressing whose meaning is different from the literal meaning.

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Which of these is a hyperbole?

• They lived in a small cabin in the woods.

• The boy was taller than the Eiffel tower.

• Jackson was eating a bite-sized candy bar.

• The moon is overwhelmingly beautiful tonight.

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Giving some non-human thing qualities of a human is...

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Alliteration

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Which is an example of personification?

• The crystal vase was expensive.

• Powerful pandas punch parrots.
• The plant called for rain.

• I like to eat pie.

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The firework exploded in the air, making a big BOOM! in the air, is an example of 

• Personification
• Onomatopoeia
• The 4th of July
• All of the above

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'You're going to be in hot water if you don't finish your essay soon!" is an example of:

• alliteration

• assonance

• personification

• idiom

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He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth means...

• He was born to a rich family
• He was born hungry
• He was born with teeth
• He was born to a silver smith

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Treasure Island (an excerpt) 
by Robert Louis Stevenson

I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow – a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking round the cover and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards.
What does the IMAGERY used in the first paragraph tell the reader about the captain?

• He is in need of first aid.
• He is likely carrying treasure in his sea-chest.
• He has grown frail and tired with old age.
• He has had a rough and adventurous life.

Open Ended

Why do writers/authors use figurative language?