Figurative Language

Multiple Choice

Why do writers use figurative language in their writing?

• To make their writing more colorful and appealing to the senses

• To make their writing more confusing

• To provide only factual information

• To limit the imagination of the reader

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of alliteration?

• She sells sea shells by the sea shore.

• Boom!

• He is a shining star.

• These shoes take 50 million years to put on.

Multiple Choice

What is the main characteristic of onomatopoeia?

• It uses the same letter or sound at the beginning of words.

• It forms words from sounds they are associated with.

• It compares two things using 'like' or 'as'.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence is an example of a metaphor?

• He is a shining star.

• Fast as the wind, quiet as a forest.

• Boom!

• Jumbo shrimp

Multiple Choice

I have a million things to do today.

• Hyperbole
• Not a Hyperbole

Multiple Choice

Which part of this sentence is exaggerated?

Mrs. Scheidt spends a thousand hours making awesome lesson plans for un.

• Mrs. Scheidt

• spends a thousand hours

• awesome lesson plans

• for us

Multiple Select

Which of the following are examples of oxymorons?

• Jumbo shrimp

• Awesome vacation

• Pickled peppers

Multiple Choice

Is this an oxymoron?

• Yes
• No

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes personification?

• Giving human characteristics to something nonhuman

• Comparing two things using 'like' or 'as'

• Exaggerating for effect

Multiple Choice

The bushes bowed down and greeted us as we walked by after the storm.

What is being personified?

• bowed down

• greeted us

• the bushes

• after the storm

Multiple Choice

When Rosa walked through the store, each new pair of high heel shoes called out to her.

What is being personified?

• Rosa

• The store

• Called out to her

• The high heel shoes

Multiple Choice

Irony usually involves something that is 

• false
• silly
• unexpected
• unimportant

Multiple Choice

A child runs away from someone throwing a water balloon at him and

• trips over a stick.

• falls into the dirt.

• falls into the pool.

• outruns said person.

Open Ended

Why might a writer use figurative language?

Multiple Choice

In what ways does figurative language enhance writing, according to the lesson?

• It makes writing more colorful and appealing to the senses.

• It makes writing more factual and straightforward.

• It limits the use of imagination in writing.

• It focuses only on grammar rules.