Figurative Language Vocabulary Quiz

Comparing two unlike things using like or as

• metaphor

• allusion

• simile

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Making a reference to a famous person, place, or event from literature, the arts, or movies

• allusion
• idiom
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Using words to imitate sounds

• alliteration
• idiom
• personification
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Giving human qualities to a non-human object

• alliteration

• allusion

• personification

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Comparing two unlike things

• simile
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Words that indicate an exaggeration

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Group of words that mean something different from its literal meaning

• personification
• onomatopoeia
• idiom
• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Pattern of words that sound similar

• internal rhyme

• end rhyme

• rhyme

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Words that rhyme in the same line

• rhyme
• end rhyme
• alliteration
• internal rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Words that have the same initial consonant sounds

• allusion
• alliteration
• rhyme
• internal rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4