Figurative Language Pre and Post Test

“The parlor was dead and Mildred kept peering in at it with a blank expression as Martin paced the floor and came back and squatted down and read a page as many as ten times, aloud."

• personification
• simile
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia 

"...Martin had only an instant to read a line, but it blazed in his mind for the next minute as if stamped there by fiery steel."

• metaphor
• repetition-for-effect
• simile
• hyperbole

"They fell like slaughtered birds, and the woman stood below, like a small girl, among the bodies."

• alliteration
• simile
• metaphor
• personification

“The bell in the ceiling kicked itself two hundred times.”

• simile
• personification
• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia 

“Music bombarded him at such immense volume that his bones were almost shaken from their tendons.”

• hyperbole
• simile
• alliteration
• repetition-for-effect

“The bed springs squealed.”

• personification
• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole
• metaphor

“Beatty smiled his smile which showed the candy pinkness of his gums and the tiny candy whiteness of his teeth."

• simile
• alliteration
• metaphor
• onomatepieia 

Love is a flower that gently blooms.

• simile
• hyperbole
• metaphor
• personification

The car cost 3 billion dollars.

• personificaton
• idiom
• hyperbole
• metaphor

If I don’t get the iPhone 8.5, I will die.

• metaphor
• hyperbole
• simile
• personification