Figurative Language

Figurative Language

5th - 7th Grade

14 Qs

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Figurative Language

Figurative Language

Assessment

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English

5th - 7th Grade

Medium

CCSS
RL.5.3, RL.5.5, RL.6.3

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14 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What type of figurative language is a comparison between two unlike things using LIKE or AS?

simile
metaphor
alliteration
hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What type of figurative language compares two unlike objects but does NOT use like or as?  This type of fig. lang states that one thing IS something else.

simile
metaphor
idiom
onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What type of figurative language has many words that begin with the same sound?
EX:  Seven silly swans swam silently.

onomatopeia
idiom
alliteration
simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What type of figurative language gives nonhuman objects human characteristics or mannerisms?
EX:  The curtains danced in the breeze.

hyperbole
metaphor
onomatopoeia
personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What type of figurative language has a totally different meaning instead of the literal one?
Ex:  When we told the secret, we let the cat out of the bag.

idiom
simile
hyperbole
alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What type of figurative language uses HUGE exaggeration?  EX:  I am the ONLY person at North who can't go to the game tonight!

personification
idiom
metaphor
hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In what type of figurative language does the word say the sound it makes?

onomatopoeia
idiom
alliteration
simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

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