Figurative Language Practice

Which is an example of a simile?

• His room was a hurricane of a mess.

• His room looked as if a hurricane came through.

• A hurricane! AHHH!

• The hurricane screamed through the town.

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• A comparison without using "like" or "as"

• A figure of speech in which the word imitates it's meaning.

• An extreme exaggeration

Which of the following in an example of onomatopoeia?

• Boom!

• No!

• Yes!

• Go!

What is the definition of hyperbole?

• When a group of of words all start with the same sound.

• When words sound like what they mean.

• An extreme exaggeration

• A comparison

Which of the following is an example of personification?

• You are as a beautiful as a flower.

• The trees danced in the wind.

• I waited in line for 10 years!

• He is an encyclopedia of knowledge.

"As straight as an arrow" is an example of what?

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

What is this is an example of: The clock on the wall laughed at me as I tried to finish my test before class ended.

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

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.

What is personification?

• The same beginning sound repeated

• Giving human characteristics to non-human things

• A word that is a sound

• An exaggeration

Why do people use figurative language?

• To make their writing interesting and visual, or to emphasis an idea and make a point.

• To be grammatically correct.

• To structure their writing into paragraphs.

• Because Beyonce uses it in her songs.