Figurative Language

Which sentence contains a simile?

• Rachel smiled like the Cheshire cat.
• Boyd had been awake for 500 hours.
• Our mayor is no Abe Lincoln.
• Farewell, my fair-headed friend.

The kid was a young Albert Einstein. This sentence uses_______?

• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• metaphor
• idiom

Bonnie briefly brushed the baby's hair. This sentence uses_____?

• alliteration
• onomatopoeia
• personification
• idiom

Which word is an example of onomatopoeia?

• pour
• zap
• reach
• feel

A hyperbole is an ______.

• exaggeration
• alliteration
• idiom
• real action

Which sentence uses personification?

• The woman looked as if she were 1,000 years old. 
• The fire hungrily ate the house.
• Where is the wicked witch?
• The tiger purred like my cat. 

Personification is a figure of speech that_____.

• makes a comparison using "like" or "as"
• exaggerates for humorous or dramatic effect 
• gives a nonhuman thing a human trait or ability 
• uses a word that sounds like what it means

Which of the following is personification?

• My sister is a volcano when she is angry!
• My angry sister screamed loud enough to wake the neighbors.
• Bang! My sister slammed the door in my face and left me standing outside, alone. 
• Anger gripped my sister's heart in its firm fist. 

It would take a thousand years to finish this book. This sentence is an example of____?

• hyperbole
• idiom
• personification
• alliteration

Which of the following sentences contains personification?

• The forest slept on and on in her silent slumber.
• All around us, the air was still.
• High above the trees, the sky was like a white blanket
• We heard nothing, not even the early morning chips of the birds.