Reading Review Figurative Language

Figurative Language Review

Watch the video in this presentation to recall some of the most popular devices. Then take the comprehension quiz.

Were you paying attention?

Now that you have had a refresher, let's see how much you were paying attention - complete the questions from the video in the next slides.

Multiple Choice

"You are the dew on the morning grass and the burning wheel of the sun."

• understatement

• hyperbole

• analogy

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

"A hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink in spilled water."

• metaphor

• analogy

• simile

• irony

Multiple Choice

"Long live the rose that grew from concrete

When no one else even cared!"

• metaphor

• personification

• understatement

• analogy

Multiple Choice

"The roof might fly off, the walls might buckle from the pressure of his rage."

• irony

• hyperbole

• understatement

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

Romeo: "What, art thou hurt?"

Mercutio: "Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch."

(After being stabbed)

• hyperbole

• personification

• analogy

• understatement

Multiple Choice

"Ten thousand saw I at a glance

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance."

• idiom

• analogy

• personification

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

"If you want my opinion on the mystery of life and all that, I can give it to you in a nutshell. The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up and safe."

• simile

• analogy

• metaphor

• idiom

Multiple Choice

"I can resist everything, except temptation."

• irony

• idiom

• analogy

• understatement

Multiple Choice

"I heard it through the grapevine."

• idiom

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• irony