Language Review!

My words are little jars / For you to take and put upon a shelf.

What type of figurative language is this?

• simile

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• metaphor

What type of figurative language is this?

He would write, but his hours are as busy / As bees in the sun

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

What type of figurative language is this?

And then my heart with pleasure fills, / And dances with the daffodils.

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• extended metaphor

What type of figurative language is this?

The moon's glow was blinding.

• hyperbole

• simile

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

What type of figurative language is this?

I could hear the tick-tock of the clock.

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

What type of figurative language is this?

The children chose to chew with their mouths open.

• metaphor

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• personification

The song featured a Romeo and Juliet type of love story.

This includes a(n) -

• paradox

• oxymoron

• imagery

• allusion

You can save money by spending it.

This is a(n) -

• simile

• connotation

• allegory

• paradox

What is the best definition for the idiom: run of the mill?

Janet gushed over the sculpture in the antique shop, but Kevin thought that the craftsmanship was merely run of the mill.

• Something this is of exceptionally high quality.

• Something marked by creativity or originality.

• Something that is too expensive for the average person too afford.

• Something that is low quality, common or ordinary.

In this extended metaphor, what is hope being compared to?

Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul,

And sings the tune without the words,

And never stops at all,

• a song.

• nothing.

• feathers.

• a bird.