
Figurative Language and Vocabulary In Context Quiz
Authored by Dan English
English
9th - 10th Grade
CCSS covered
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
Why does a writer use figurative language?
Tags
CCSS.L.3.5A
CCSS.RL.3.4
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
His mind is a deep well of knowledge.
Tags
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
CCSS.L.4.5A
CCSS.L.5.5A
CCSS.RL.5.4
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
"Giving inanimate objects human like qualities, emotions, or actions" is one definition of the following figurative language device:
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CCSS.L.6.5A
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Nature wears the lush beauty of summer proudly.
hyperbole
simile
personification
metaphor
Tags
CCSS.L.6.5A
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
"Wake not, stubborn fear. You sleep outside the door of my heart and, though, I cannot see you, I hear your breaths like the heavy heaves and falls of a dragon breathing as it sleeps." The previous passage contains ALL the figurative language devices EXCEPT for which one?
simile
personification
metaphor
hyperbole
Tags
CCSS.L.3.5A
CCSS.RL.3.4
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The baby's shriek could lacerate (tear) a person's eardrums.
Tags
CCSS.L.11-12.5A
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
The cottony clouds billowed in the summer sky, a fluffy pattern to be admired by the soft hearts of youth.
Tags
CCSS.W.11-12.2D
CCSS.L.4.5A
CCSS.L.5.5A
CCSS.RL.5.4
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