FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE TEST

Multiple Choice

What type of figurative language is this line?: I could grow very still like an old stone on a hill.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

Identify the figurative language in this song:

A winters day In a deep and dark December; I am alone, Gazing from my window to the streets below On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

Multiple Choice

What type of author's craft can be found in this sentence:

“It rained on his lousy tombstone, and it rained on the grass on his stomach. It rained all over the place.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Repetition

Multiple Choice

What type of figurative language do we see here: How sweet the sobbing violin.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

Identify the figurative language:
A shooting star once said to me
That nothing’s really what it seems
‘You must make up your own mind’
Well I’ll try this time

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Multiple Choice

Which figurative language is used in this example: "And when you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while."

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

What is the figurative language device used here in this line of Colbie Caillat's song "Bubbly": "I've been awake for a while now. You got me feelin' like a child now."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

Multiple Choice

This Bitmoji is an example of a(n)...

• personification

• metaphor

• idiom

• allusion

Multiple Choice

Imagery is...

• giving human qualities to something non-human

• descriptive language that helps you picture what is being said

• when words sound alike

• when literal meaning does not match actual meaning

Multiple Choice

Which song lyrics contain onomatopoeia?

• Baby you're a firework

• Hello darkness my old friend

• Boom! Clap! The sound of my heart

• Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain?

Match

Match the following

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

The trip to the mountains took forever to get to our cabin.

The hissing snake made me jump backwards and fall into the water.

The waves were leaping onto the shore.

The cat was like a sneaky fox sneaking up on its prey.

The fox is a sneaky thief in the night.

• The trip to the mountains took forever to get to our cabin.

• The hissing snake made me jump backwards and fall into the water.

• The waves were leaping onto the shore.

• The cat was like a sneaky fox sneaking up on its prey.

• The fox is a sneaky thief in the night.

Multiple Choice

The following is an example of what?

Twinkle, twinkle little star

How I wonder what you are.

Up above the world so high,

Like a diamond in the sky.

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Rhyme Scheme

• Onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

The following is an example of what?

She awoke to the chirping of birds and the soft whisper of a breeze as it passed through the tree outside her window.

• Rhyme Scheme

• Imagery

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

The following is an example of what?

The wheels on the bus

go round and round,

round and round,

round and round!

• Simile

• Repetition

• Personification

• Imagery

Multiple Choice

The following is an example of what?

The man looked like a Hercules as he lift the car off the injured woman's leg.

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Allusion

• Personification

Multiple Choice

The baby girl’s smile was the sun on dark days.

What does this metaphor mean?

• The baby girl's smile made other people happy.

• When the baby girl smiled the sun would rise.

• The baby never smiled.

• The baby girl's smile made the moon come ou.t

Multiple Choice

Which word in the sentence below is an example of onomatopoeic?

Saya was doing the dishes and the clanging pots awoke the baby.

• pots

• clanging

• dishes

• awoke

Multiple Choice

Is the sentence literal or figurative?

The sprinter was a torpedo aiming straight for the finish line.

• literal

• figurative

Multiple Choice

Is the sentence literal or figurative?

The cup of coffee was steaming hot.

• literal

• figurative

Multiple Choice

Is this sentence literal or figurative?

The world record for holding one's breath is over twenty minutes.

• literal

• figurative

Multiple Choice

What does it mean to give someone the "cold shoulder?"

• To make someone cold

• Someone feels that they need a sweater

• to be nice to someone

• to ignore somebody

Multiple Choice

What is the real meaning of "Hit the nail on the head?"

• to get the exact right answer

• to work with a hammer

• to build something

• to hit someone

Multiple Choice

"I heard it through the grapevine."

• idiom

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• irony

Multiple Choice

Which literary device is used in the following line?

"The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas"

• C) Hyperbole

• D) Simile

• A) Metaphor

• B) Personification

Multiple Choice

Which literary device is used in the following line?

"The cold night air smelled of smoke and wood as the nearby houses let of a faint glow"

• hyperbole

• tone

• personifcation

• imagery

Multiple Choice

What two things are being compared in the following metaphor?
The crab was a dancing pair of scissors, clicking across the sand. 

• Crab and Sand
• Crab and dancing scissors
• Scissors and sand
• Dancing and sand. 

Multiple Choice

Which example below is an example of an oxymoron?

• It was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity.

• He ate flaming hot Cheetos.

• A little pain never hurt anyone.

Multiple Choice

There was such a joyful sadness in her beautiful face. What is the oxymoron?

• Beautiful Face
• Such a
• Joyful Sadness
• Beautiful 

Multiple Choice

Which of the following symbols might represent a broken relationship?

• A Siberian Tiger

• Shattered glass

• Fire

• Stars

Multiple Choice

After struggling to escape a hard life, a character is described as twirling around on a spring day surrounded by newly budding trees and blooming flowers. What might this passage symbolize?

• sadness that the new season has started

• excitement to hear the birds chirping

• optimism that life is restarting; representing a new birth

• disappointment that summer is so close