Figurative Language Review

Figurative Language Review

Multiple Choice

What is a metaphor?

• Comparing two things in a text
• Comparing two things using like and as
• An over exaggeration 
• Comparing two things without using like and as

Multiple Choice

What is a hyperbole?

• An exaggerated statement not to be taken literally. 
• Telling the truth
• Comparing a rock to a island
• Break a leg

Multiple Choice

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

Multiple Choice

Which is an example of a simile?

• His room was a hurricane of a mess.
• His room looked as if a hurricane came through.
• A hurricane! AHHH!
• The hurricane screamed through the town. 

Multiple Choice

The pie was so tough I needed an ax to cut it.

• hyperbole
• personification
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

Juana's dark eyes swam like fish behind her tinted glasses. What is being compared in this simile?

• eyes-glasses
• eyes-fish
• fish-glasses

Multiple Choice

The ball jumped out of the receiver's hands. 

• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• personification

Multiple Choice

When you give human-like qualities to something that is not human

• alliteration

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

Words that resemble the sound they describe

• hyperbole

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

• personification

Multiple Choice

The fly buzzed past us

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• personification

Multiple Choice

The rain falls like the sun, rising upon the mountains

• simile

• idiom

• hyperbole

• metaphor

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The sunflowers nodded their yellow heads

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

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We had to wait forever!

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor