Figurative Language and Literary Devices

What onomatopoeia goes best with this picture?

• Take-off!
• Pow!
• Blast!
• Fly

Which of the following is a hyperbole?

• She is as pretty as a flower.
• She is the prettiest woman in the entire universe.
• She is a beautiful flower.
• She is very pretty.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Read the sentence and choose the onomatopoeic word.
Saya was doing the dishes and the clanging pots awoke the baby.

• pots
• clanging
• dishes
• awoke

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Polly Peters positively played Ping-Pong.

• Metaphor
• Personification
• Alliteration
• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Her new car cost an arm and a leg. 

• personification
• metaphor
• idiom
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

What's the meaning of this simile?
"My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time."

• Her hair is red.
• She talks really loudly.
• She gets really angry. 
• She spits when she talks. 

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The car is a dinosaur, so we better buy a new one.
What is the meaning of the metaphor highlighted green? 

• The car is very old.
• The car was truly made in prehistoric times.
• The car is very new.
• The car makes rude noises.

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is  the meaning of this personification?
"The camera loves me!"

• Photography is one of my hobbies.
• I own an expensive camera.
• Photos of me are always really good. 
• I like to visit art museums.

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

This quiz is going to be a piece of cake!

• personification
• idiom
• hyperbole
• simile

"That noise is driving me up the wall!"
This is an example of:

• personification
• metaphor 
• alliteration
• idiom