Figurative Language Practice

Multiple Choice

What is an exaggeration or overstatement?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Multiple Choice

What is a comparison of two unlike things without the use of like or as?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Multiple Choice

What is the figurative language called when an author gives human characteristics to nonhuman things?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Multiple Choice

__________ is a comparison of two unlike things using the words 'like' or 'as.'

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

​ Match the correct figurative language to each quote from "A long walk to water".

Multiple Choice

"She kept digging, scooping out handfuls of clay until the hole was as deep as her arm was long." (p.26)

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

"His belly was a rounded lump stuffed full of honey and beeswax." (p.28)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Multiple Choice

"He sighed, and Salva heard the sigh all the way to his heart." (p.29)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Multiple Choice

"He clung to Uncle like a baby or a little boy, hanging on to his hand or shirttail when he could, never letting Uncle get farther than an arm's length away." (p.40)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Multiple Choice

"For every one he killed, it seemed that hundreds more swarmed in to take its place." (p.50

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Multiple Choice

"She knew that place like the back of her own hand." (p.57)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Multiple Choice

"Salva did not know how long he was in the water.

It felt like hours.

It felt like years." (p.79)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Multiple Choice

"It was hard to keep hope alive when there was so little to feed it." (p.85)

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification