6th Exam Review #3: Figurative Lang

Comparing two unlike things using like or as

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

Using words whose sound suggest their meaning

• personification
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• idiom

a repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• onomatopoeia
• personification
• idiom
• alliteration

Comparing two unlike things not using like or as

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• alliteration

Giving human qualities to nonhuman objects

• idiom
• personification
• alliteration
• hyperbole

an obvious exaggeration

• hyperbole
• idiom
• alliteration
• metaphor

a well-known phrase that means something different than what it says

• metaphor
• simile
• idiom
• personification

Choose the correct example of an alliteration 

• Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout would not take the garbage out. 
• She is skin and bones.
• Her hair is a soft as silk. 
• Time stood still when Romeo walked into the room.  

Choose the correct example of a similie.  

• I am a city child. 
• We honor you. 
• I am the timid daughter who can rage only on paper.
• She rises against the sun like a skyscraper.

What type of figurative language is the following?
The child was like a rabbit racing down the track.

• simile
• metaphor
• personifcation
• idiom