Figurative Language Quiz

A comparison of two things when the writer says that something is actually something else.

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• idioms

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

A huge exaggeration

• idiom
• hyperbole
• personification
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A comparison of two thing using the words “like” or “as”

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• hyperbole

Giving an object that is not human some personal or human characteristics

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• idiom

Words that say the sound they make (buzz, hiss)

• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole
• idiom
• simile

When several words begin with the same sound.

• onomatopoeia
• personification
• alliteration
• hyperbole

A figure of speech whose meaning differs from the literal meaning of its words (Zip your lip).

• alliteration
• hyperbole
• metaphor
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

The new sweater was as soft as a lamb.

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

That policeman was an angel.

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

The horsefly buzzed all around the room!

• hyperbole
• personification
• idiom
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4